Stream of Thought

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.

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The Other Side Of The Mountain

I would like to think that by now I have “got it all together.”

But, the truth is, I am still in shock by how things turned out, finding myself here after my previous life’s earnest endeavors.

Turning fifty-one is like starting all over again, finding myself in new terrain – and with experience which may or may not apply.

What still matters keenly is claiming my life’s purpose and cultivating good relationships with others while seeking my life mate.

In this respect, not much about me has changed – just the playing board and the various players.

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Labor Sour

Stuck vexation wells up in quiet, explosive curses walking on uneven, shifting terrain that mitigates balance while working on cobbling together what once was homestead fencing.

Past negative association accumulated from living on a mountain in dangerous circumstances with little on-site support – yet intense and condemning criticism from afar by others’ unrealistic expectations.

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Is It Enough?

Maintaining treading water through grinding poverty gets overwhelming and exhausting.

Truthfully, I am done with it.

Just tired of fighting agencies for paymemts due or against others’ bad intentions.

Just tired of being a warrior for empty causes when there is so much more I could be doing and contributing.

I mean, yeah – survival is a baseline cause worth championing.

But, I am a gladiator of re-imagining.

My innovative efforts and abilities are being wasted navigating this cess pool of beaurocratic inception malarkey.

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Clearing Debris

Our boat having landed in a place to replenish resources, I find it is much more important to invest in rest and recovery than to promote deep roots growing into this new soil.

This is a good place and a good community, but it feels like I am three years behind any original goals. And having worked hard to expand upon my previous skillsets, there is a hunger in me to experience life in total as More.

There are collapsing boxes to empty, payments to chase, fraud account wreckage to deflect, and general daily operations to continue while seeking items which keep us functioning.

I wonder how much of this “housekeeping” is required before I begin feeling lighter and can attend to the front of my bow’s desires, rather than worrying about integrity of the hull.

I am restless to claim my dream opportunities, and struggle to prioritize these seemingly menial trivialites which by completing make me stronger in my ability to greet this new future.

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Because I Am True

At every stage of risk, I put myself forward with trust and vulnerability.

At some point, it no longer matters if I am betrayed or disappointed.

Apparently, there’s much of this propagated in our current reality.

But, every time I reach for more with honesty, I reaffirm myself.

So, even with incurring further losses, I come out still winning.

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Returning To Myself

Having taken a journey into the realms of deeper love, I had happily allowed the wind to carry me from my solid ground footing.

I am still floating above it – and quite happy. For being earthbound in mire and toil had become quite depressing.

I know that I have been experiencing living while dreaming what the reality could truly be like – and it made who I am all the better for it.

If only dreams could manifest into reality, who would I become then?

I look forward to the experience.