Stream of Thought

Transportable Garden

At last, her garden endeavors were progressing in a way that helped her settle back into early summertime rhythms.

Beans, snap peas, zuchinni, and tomatoes; strawberries, snap dragons, petunias, and lobelia; roses, dianthus, lavender, and violas give food, perfume scents, and colors.

Four fruit trees among the herbs, carnations, pineapple sage, and lots of lemon balm; and flowering porch plants were in abundance;

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Fighting Lockdown

It is a horrifying experience to have one’s mind throwing up blocks when attempting to address cleaning up issues that affect my credit.

I was and am still an ace at management and strategizing.

It’s just that the vexation, despair, and extreme stress that I kept dealing with over the past four years wore down my optimism in these areas – like a Pavlovian shock response upon neurons trained into “Don’t Go There.”

Luckily, I remembered one agency from way back that I had spoken with, and their top-notch, kind, and informed assistance helped me maneuver past self protective barriers.

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Waiting

As a single mother, I did not have the freedom to go where my heart needed and desired.

Not like a man.

Not like a person uncommitted.

I knew I had to slowly maneuver however I could while maintaining cobbled together stability.

I had to buy time and hold space for my children to grow.

I had to focus on what they needed essentially to eventually expand dynamically.

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To “Rest In My Skin”

Hypervigilance and repetetive stress response to fleeting stability again becoming unstable takes its toll on a fight or flight cortisol system.

Unable to choose “freeze” as an option due to need to keep moving, body auto-locks down against muscle movement because it wants to stop moving “for safety.”

I remember when the sensation first happened over ten years ago, and how hard I fought against it For if it had won then, I would not have been functional for my children.

It is very vexing to feel hunted and haunted by such a mechanism. I keep fighting to overcome it instead of it overwhelming me – because if I am “the carrier,” I must also be “the solution.”

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To Just Stop

I had been feeling under the weather for a couple of weeks and could not seem to get my pep back, until what ever was riding finally got to me.

Recognizing I was compromised before symptoms visually surfaced took bravery on my part to admit – and was the best timing for all concerned because I was not yet contagious.

It would be nice if other people recognized this type of diligence, rather than continuing with imposed beliefs that we must work until we make ourselves worse – and infect the people around us in the process.

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Relief

Even after she disconnected, she had yet another dream where she proved her qualities over the vapid superiority of another.

Why were surface facades still valued over deeper levels? Why dream of that family’s inclusiveness as a desire?

She knew how to be on her own, and being on her own as a genuine contributor was better than being with others who did not truly see her.