Stream of Thought

Dormancy

Sinking into the abyss of internal focus regardless of discomfort within this tired shell of a body, I wonder if the body-mind is truly more about psychology rather than physiology.

And I marvel that for all of these years I have been brightly optimistic no matter the dire circumstances encountered or thrown at me.

As I settle back into what sense of self I have currently and take stock of the damage to my confidence’s integrity, how did I manage to believe there is someone out there that can match me?

I have fought back lies, deceit, betrayal, and compromise in order the keep the light brighter inside than the suffocating encroachment of darkness.

But what am I left with in my core now that I have consumed will’s once seeming limitless energy?

I have just the shadows as company – and myself, worn as the wind sawing through limbs of old, bestraggled trees.

If I become as the crone and let the dark take me, perhaps she will pass through me and leave.

If I forget all that I have been, will I find myself reborn with the spring?

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Finding Love Again

He could only love someone who did not threaten him.

If a woman was self empowered – even if she deferred to him, he still felt insecure.

It was hard to grow in such a relationship: having to watch every step for a mistake; never able to do something “right” that made him happy.

The most she could do to please him was to diminish herself.

And in the end, this just gave him reason to disrespect her further.

How does a more mature woman think it could now be possible – nay, probable that she could find a better partnerahip after such misuse and waste of her time by another?

Looking around, the closest candidates were already taken.

But, even they did not contain that spark of romantic interactive intelligence she craved.

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My Story

It is interesting at times for me to experience being in these various positions.

Sometimes I feel elated, and at other times, it feels tragic.

I know how I began; how I evolved; how I strove; how I overcame.

And it just seems like I ought to have achieved more advancement.

However, expenditure of energy tallies.

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The Woman In The Window

In her mind, she would think of him, and her heart yearned for the touch of his hand, the timbre of his voice, the warmth in his smile – and even the concern in his occasional frown.

Sometimes, she would see him pass by quickly on a latest errand, or catch a glimpse of him across the street with his girlfriend.

She was trying to understand herself by understanding him. She felt unmistakenly connected – as if somehow they were kin.

Societal ageism and time’s maturing of her skin tried to pressure her into sequestering her remaining years. But, she was still young inside and struggling to find a way toward recovery.

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Peppermint Rhapsody

The herb is supposed to be cooling, but I have avoided drinking it because I have had experience in more recent years that the peppermint used in candies will coat and burn longterm in my digestive system.

However, yesterday’s health fair exploration took us to a booth of soaps, scrubs, and teas. As I turned away commenting mildly to my youngling that I could not focus my eyes to read due to a pressure headache, the proprietor leapt up to assist me.

She briskly grasped a bag of fresh peppermint tea with hibiscus flowers mixed into it, opened it, and presented the aromatic haven for me to breath in deeply. My sinuses immediately began opening as if letting in a fresh breeze and my brain fog began clearing from psycbological releif.

I had not considered that mixing the two herbs could be a perfect compliment of tart, purgative flowers soothing the mint uplifting pervascence. And, the wonderful smell and the woman’s gesture made me feel happy – so of course we bought the bag and some of her boothmate’s homemaid marionberry jelly!

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Wow – Pretty Good!

I tossed the small and yet equally-proportioned, weighty cardboard box firm-gently toward the pile of other things in the garage to be sorted.

This arced from a distance of about ten feet away going a few mph, slightly elevated by the two steps above at the kitchen door.

The spinning box met at speed with the side of an object which blocked and bounced it backward, angling down into a larger box open on its side that rested within a fabric wagon.

The two joined as one as the larger box corraled the smaller, nesting it with precisioned finality as if I had gone over there and intentionally positioned.

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I Heard It Today

Out of context and in passing – that disregard we can give to a loved one and/or partner/spouse.

It sounded like that expectation that someone will understand where we are coming from, so we think that our biting tone remarks should no longer offend anyone.

There is an overfamiliarity that develops over time where one partner decides to just accept it – and the other proceeds forward, rendered blind.

The harmonic chord that when we cherish each other brings forth union is what I crave to uphold.

I do not want to ever fall into any patterns of communication that make another person feel less than human.

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High Achieving

Words’ meanings change over time according to applications.

For example, I have always been a high achiever – but when battling constant poverty, high achieving can become outmaneuvering factors to keep us from sliding back into homelessness.

When one has limited resources, innovation gets conscripted toward maintaining base reality as toil’s erosion keeps wearing away from under one’s feet.

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Despondence

The driver noted how his passenger’s return was very different from when she first set out on her journey.

On way to the airport to return to Egypt, she had been animated, anxious but hopeful, and chatty.

On the way back, she kept passing out during conversation late at night while mumbling incoherent, garbled responses to his humor.

She was struggling with the heavy weight of depression from what had just happened, and the pressure of her now stalted monitones eluded his tympanic membrane.

While some well-placed, socialite woman would have just donated her whole wardrobe to charity and revamped her sense of identity, the travelor just returned to the sense of desperation waiting for her on the mountainside.