Stream of Thought

Finances

Money flow is an odd thing in my reality.

It doesn’t always go how I want it – but then sometimes arrives, just as I need it.

Like a tax return that I hoped to have for a deposit arriving just when income from work slows and the cat needs an emergency vet visit.

It can be frustrating how I seem to have no actual control – except for how to use what is given to me.

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Honesty

I know that there are times where absolute truth is not always necessary, such as when your best friend feels bad about their hair that got cut too short, and you help lessen the mishap’s impact.

But, it seems to me that with the basic truths that are most important, if we all did our best to ascribe to their values, the bad times and parts of life would be less horrible.

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To Be Known

Last night, a sense of deep anxiety hit me so hard that I almost folded.

I mean quit everything here, shut down the site, “locked up shop.”

Why?

Because I was taught to hide myself, and I guess the more I share the more danger signals blare – real or imagined.

But, the problem is that as a society we are told to only show each other snippets of our truth, and to conduct our public personas by prior-approved sound bites.

I am tired of marching to this tune – where there isn’t really the chance to know and come to care for anybody.

Stream of Thought

Kind Regards

“Hi, thank you for leaving the note on my car. That was very kind. It’s a older car and I don’t see much of a mark so no need to worry about getting insurance involved. I appreciate you letting me know.”

“This is so kind of you – thank you! I know how upsetting someone dinging my car and then leaving has been for me, so I did not want to do that to you.”

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Retraction

When I was outside in my car, resting at the gym, the wind suddenly gust-blew hard, pushing and slamming my open door into the neighbor’s passenger side panel

I took pictures and proof data for my records and eft a note for the owners on their windshield under the wiper if they wanted to contact me.

Then, I changed my voicemail to anonymous with just the number stated in answering because I am tired of people finding reasons to take advantage.

Stream of Thought

Crimped

I apologize for not always catching my spelling mistakes.

I try – I really do.

However, between fighting the auto-adjustments in this program, my touch screen’s slurring, and my shifting vision, some mistakes keep slipping through.

This is why I posted the “heads up” in my profile regarding revisions.

If I can’t depend upon consistency of compensation for hindered acuity, I can’t accept pressure of critics expecting perfection from me.

Stream of Thought

Static

Upon deep introspection, it is likely best that I don’t seek out relationship.

The kind of connection I have been questing for is something beyond the normal base most people are willing to settle for.

In trying to figure out what kind of a personality would match me, it was suggested I could be paired with another artist – like another writer or an actor.

But then, if they are already established (which I would want so we could have a base of stability), you run into the “fans and societal judgment factor.”

I have yet to meet a man who does not bend his soul to these things.

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;

Stream of Thought

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.”