I love the crow caw affirming after she says, “Me no wan non a dat.”
Stubborn
She wasn’t going back to that dark place.
She would not make once offer to another.
He wasn’t the only one who could be absolute.
She had learned well by his example.
(Lavender – Ray LaMontagne)
Giving From The Heart
The nice thing about being a healer is that I can find good community individuals in need of and appreciative of my being able to help them improve their quality of living.
“Summer Dreaming”
Here the chimes in the background?
“Norway Maple Seeds”

“Squiggles”

“Bright Blue”

Boggy Swamp
He had always been there, somewhere in the background. His absence cut a fresh swath in her soul.
Alternative Paths
I get attached to my stories, for they are my memories. They are my experiences.
I feel sad when I have to leave each one behind like a trail of bread crumbs.
They lead back to where I started from, and they lead right back to me.
Crows and squirrels, mice and bugs – even the roots of trees – may consume what I have done, thankful for this temporary sustenance.
Like a mythical creature born to roam as the only one of its kind, I continue forward to seek the sunlight’s dappling.
(Everything Counts – Superflash – Depeche Mode, 1983)
So young back then!
Moving Parts
I keep rehydrating, reactivating, and remobilizing zones until they are capable of restoring their components by rehabilitation.
(Holding Me Like Water – Lastlings)
“I Can Do It!”
My therapy has expanded to upper thigh into abdominal muscle reactivation!
On The Go
My interests are bundled in little pockets within my mind, looking for opportunities to develop where I am not stuck in a bind.
(No Signal – Alex Ratz)
Hilarity
When my leg muscles are too tight and I need to go from standing to sitting on the ground, it is a precarious teetering situation to do so because I cannot yet even rely on my shoulder to be sound and catch my weight in controlled falling down.
“Time For Breakfast?”

(Both Sides Now – Judy Collins)
(My Immortal – Evanescence)
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King 2002 – I Am No Man
Not So Funny
I checked out a dating app and immediately got hit up on by a twenty year old.
Of course, I exited.
(It’ll Be Ok – Shawn Mendes)
“Velvet”

Ending Of Monsters Inc.
Bone Tired
Rest is what I need
With food to feed
My weary marrow
Soaking up sun
In a rocking chair
While dogs run.
Independence Day 2023
On this day so many years ago, a man and a woman bonded with and fell in love with each other.
This anniversary every year was to represent their breaking free from a negative past and choosing a positive life together.
On this day, today, I can finally lay to rest that lost dream.
Friendship With My Ex
We figured out some of this complex
And realized we are best distanced.
Truth, for itself, can be satisfying.
The Kiss Of Death
Lure me with your charms
So that I become disarmed
As I fall into the dream where
Truth becomes obscene and
Promises turn to lies
Where compromise
The entire concept of
What love represents.
Freedom
No longer needing anyone in order to feel happy.
But, this state of being can still be at times very lonely.
Disclaimer
I am not referring to a particular person in this last writing, “In A Land Of Injured Men.”
It is simply the curse, the spell I seem to be under, where I have been unable to find a man wanting to be awake and vital like me.
There are so many ways designed to work on a man until he gives up. They work on a woman as well, as they have worked on me.
But, I am still pushing back and trying.
I am alive and brightly burning.
In A Land Of Injured Men
The man I have wanted to love haa been hiding deep inside of himself – and I can’t reach him.
If and when I have stayed to try to share in relationship, I am interacting with defensive patterns.
This becomes a loveless situation, a dangerous for the hearts and mutual psychology propagation.
For if the man I love is not present in his awareness, he is just reliving and recreating his nightmares.
I am not seen for me, but am subconsciously tracked, accused, and guarded against.
I am manipulated and past wounds are misinterpreting my every move and word as transgrescence.
Wherever I have gone, wherever I have sought, this phenomenon is all around me.
I arrive – and the damage has already happened. It’s just a matter of at what stage the corruption is progressing.
I have been walking in a time-space continuum of zombies, watching their starving, lifeless corpse bodies writh and reach for me.
They can not discern truth anymore. They can not accept love to be healed and be set free from the injuries sustained before me.
Not from me, anyway.
Because I struggle to stay awake – and they see me as a threat and either fight with, avoid, or try to destroy me.
(Waking up from a dream that showed this to me.)
(Apollo Road – ATB & Dash Berlin)
Absence
One day, the extreme flares of pain relinquished their hold on her, and returned to the realms of normal flux levels.
(All Right Now – Free)
(Memories – Alex Ratz)
(The Only One To Love Me – Friday Brown, “Girl Friday”)
Hey, she was born on my birthday in 1947!
Potent-ial
Seeing an adult buck with antler display in the middle of town on eve of the moon shifting to the full buck moon seems to be a very positive spiritual sign for me.
“Almost Full Buck Moon”

“Frondlings”

“Vortices”

“Evening Star”

Zoom above to center right.
“Not Blueberries”

“‘The Buck Stops Here'”



It is so cool that I saw a buck on the eve of the full Buck Moon! He decided this parking lot was still too busy
“Surrounded By Friends”

“Bumblebee-2”

Lavender terrain also made this capture tricky.
“Bumblebee-1”

It took many photos to catch this busy collector!
“Salvia”

“Happy Wolf”

Photography
A way to show the world the worlds that I see.
