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Flogging Myself

We have ants coming into our bathroom and my pants with belt were on the floor, so I gave them a good whip-crack to dislodge any ants that may have climbed onto them.

Now I have a red welt mark on my left inner thigh from the belt buckle.

Apparently, I am still learning my own “Strength In Power” capabilities.

(Is this last quoted texr now a TM? Lol.)

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Continuum

Taxes will be late if I do not complete them.

I likely can’t get back UI money lost – unless I sue them.

While timeline to collect on a patient’s claim is expiring, getting our cars registered and mine at last towed off my parents’ property for closure has become priority.

Classes I have paid for are lapsing – but, the mountains I keep climbing are very tiring.

Even when it was “worse,” I still fought to keep up.

Now I’m just wiped: Enough is Enough!

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Attempts To Bridge

All of my efforts seem to have been thwarted, including intro and resume letters being sent back as “undeliverable as addressed” after being slit-on-sides open.

I know that “The Best of The Best” praise the concept of “keep trying” (which has always been my motto) – but, honestly, I feel rended apart as if at the cusp of a blackhole’s tidal forces, making my allegiences feel divided.

If there were a way to have my family nearby and accessible so that I could still tend to and nourish them while I participate in my greatest dreams, this would be my ideal solution.

But, to choose either/or when we are still just now recovering seems foolhardy – especially when my every attempt to bridge is being deflected.

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Today’s Joy

While speaking with my best childhood friend and going through broken down boxes, I found my car title which has eluded for 5 years or more and began transferring stuff to new boxes so new associations take place over old.

Then, I got to speak with my eldest and grandchild, and then spent time with youngesr while making banana pancakes and chicken marsala to finish up a lovely stay-at-home day.

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Prior Conditioning

Time lag suppression pausing (duck and hunker auto reactivion) between thinking and speaking due to past abuse to the head and body if/when attempted to soeak out loud in childhood.

It’s kind of crazy how the early formative years return and haunt when buffers in adulthood are stripped away.

Yet, thus can become an opportunity to change such limitations now into advantages by pushing beyond prior threshholds into new behaviors.

Speach therapy? Acting class? Reading aloud poetry?

What venue will yield most benefits and activate smooth synaptic conveyance?

Is it merely about building confidence?

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On My Own Time

Walking the girls downtown, I give off an air of independence and confidence, cocooned in our rhythmic jaunting and the patterns of their movements.

I try to feel the openness of each moment as I catch brief glimpses of others passing by while they socialize meeting friends and dates or partners.

Looking up at the sky in wonder, I take in the blue-gray panoramas, pausing the hounds to coordinate some pictures.

I try to push aside the deep, abiding ache of ever present loneliness that tries to swallow me and tell me it has always been – and will always be this way.

Is it strange that my imagination plays vibrant scenerios which have little relativity to what I am doing right now?

It’s like having a case of the “Walter Mitty’s” – only, somehow I believe it is possible that these dreams can become realities.

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Happiness

I have been playing with this concept today upon realizing my mind has become bored and despondent.

As long as one focuses on what they do not have, pining for it in expectation that the gaining of it will make them happy, they are forever suspended in suffering or anedonia (for example) until they obtain it.

A person can desire and quest for something they value for their entire life, yet never find it.

Therefore, I need to have such things diminish in their weight if I am to survive the journey in better cheer than being strapped to a gurney.

These things can still maintain my focus, but I must also focus on what I have currently – and maximize the benefits.