“Insurmountables which must be surmounted.”
Category: Altered States
(Summer Days – Beatrice Dupont & Ron Rivers)
“Let It Slide” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 12, 2025
Wouldn’t it be wonderful
If it weren’t all downhill
From here as they say
Except if it gets easier?
On a day like today
When I am so tired
I wonder that I ever had
Energy that conquered
The blues and overcame
Despite hardship’s blame
Haven’t felt so exhausted
That I can ever remember
Like a soft blanket covering
Giving safety or strangling?
I guess I just need to sleep
But insomnia keeps peeked
The part of me looking out
For awaited homecomings
And if I knew what was enough
Well, I would try to give all of it
And if my chance got back its luck
Well then, I would have to go for it
But it’s just been kids and me
A mixture of human and furry
Maybe this is the quiet that comes
Before the next storm sets tumbling
Any sense of balance that I have
Thought I should keep acquiring
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Drained
“Giving in therapy these days is taking a huge draw on reserves that are ghost remnants.”
Butterfly Wings
“Strong, yet delicate.”
(Closer To The Heart – Rush)
Repost from July 19, 2022
Done For The Night
“Super-fried Fricassee-frittered.”
Second Guessing
She felt “messed up” because what if he didn’t want her?
(Easy On Me – Adele)
Sleep Token Quote
“Stick to me…stick to me like caramel. Walk beside me, ’til you feel nothing, as well.
Falling free of the final parallel. The sweetest dreams are bitter when there’s no one left to tell.”
(From their latest song, “Caramel”)
Deprogramming
“If we can see the lies that have entrapped us, maybe we can figure a way around them.”
Fractured Trust
“We’ve been conditioned to believe that heartbreak and deceit are just the way life is.”
(If I Say – The Happy Hippy Death Cult)
Mind Fu**ery
“When caught repeatedly within embroiled inequities of one form to another, the real battle becomes the struggle to overcome imposed belief that one will never rise above.”
(Fields Of Elation – Sleep Token)
My Demons
“MINE – I WILL OWN THEM!!!”
(Sound the battle cry)
Move!
“Stuck in my car at 12:30am from the shock…”
Fire Your Gun
“It’s a testament as to how deep the ditch is that I’ve been shoved into, that when I begin to finally emerge, I am met by renewed resistance.”
Ode
“The neighbors diagonal-across the way must’ve moved, because their lovely yard, with the lovely tree always draped endearingly wuth bright, tiny evening lights, were all ripped out and replaced with a flat and nondescript, monocultured lawn.”
Sometimes
“It’s f-ing hard to be pragmatic.”
(Shelter – Sleep Token)
Negative Feedback
“Nothin’ like being constantly badgered into feelimg like one has no control over their life’s circumstances!”
You Know, It Gets Like This…
“Enough said – MF’s”
And Then…
“My already empty bank account gets hit by some mystery $700 Federal charge, massively overdrafting.”
Processing Speed
“In some ways, my mind processes things so rapidly while extrapolating complicated variances interdimensionally – I’m not sure a partner could meet, or even keep up with me!”
(I Started A Fire – Tin Licker & Hero Baldwin)
In The Hype
“When and where is the time for love’s smoldering?”
Simulation
Moments passing by
Crammed overlapping
None of them retainable
As if love is negotiable
(Read My Mind – Tom Ferry & M00NE)
The Hustle
“Squeezing dimes from dwindled resources to get a little farther down the road.”
(You Already Know – Sultan Shepard)
In-Between
“I must hold myself in a type of balance.”
(Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers)
Gently Broken
“It didn’t seem gentle at the time, for how quickly their illnesses tipped into finality.
But we had a little bit of grace with each in which to attempt to counter, and to prepare ourselves for the inevitable goodbye.
Sitting in front of the fire with the three no longer present (except maybe in spirit) makes me just want to cry.”
Always On The Edge
“Is it ok and safe to rest and recover?”
Clemency
“Do the cats forgive me for needing to be set free? I would have chosen a different way for us…”
(Re loss and overwhelm)
“It’s Not The Power Of The Curse”
“But the power you give it.”
(From the movie, Penelope.)
Oh, That’s Right…
“I no longer have to wear pants in the house for fear of goo being flicked onto my legs from a valiantly striving, sick kitty…Howl…”
Arrested Behavior
“I’m not sure what it’s going to take to obtain a system reset. I seem caught in a vigilance loop.”
End Of An Era
“The cats died, and my kid moved out.”
Haunted Carnival
“Being on death watch for three cats since last Summer has not been a fun ride at all!”
Unwittingly
“Does adding wit make it worse or better?”
Catastrophic Living
“Is that a book? A way of life? An affectation?”
Nervous?
“Who’s nervous?”
(Looking around all innocent-like)
“Well, That Was Nice”
Catchphrasing for prospective backup if things go wrong.
Countdown
“I’m about to be sucked up into coursework and next stage levels of business rebuilding.
Compulsion
She tried to stop thinking about him, but when she closed her eyes to rest, her spirit was instantly pulled into other realms where she experienced mild to intensely interactive scenarios.
Speaking Of Which
“I went to open a can of dog food with the metal pull tab – and the tab came off without opening the can!”
(Sad But True – Metallica)
Codependency
“We are being forced into depending upon technologies that we cannot individually fix and/or reproduce when ithey fail, rather than being taught how to and continuing to have access to more easily managed designs.”
