Futility
Free Will is merely an abstract construct once the heart is conscripted into the service of another where there is no hope for reciprocation.
(Wrapped Around Your Finger – The Police, 1983)
Smitten
If I find the right word to name it, perhaps the spell will release. For I cannot live another life without also obtaining my ease.
Justine Batemen On Why Fear Of Aging Is Worse Than Looking Older
“Beithir”

“Cloud Demon Needs Coffee!”

See its hands and arms reaching for Dutch Bros (TM)? Its eyes in head at bottom middle turn toward us as if to say, ” Don’t you agree?” Sure! Sure! Yes if it makes you happy! Zoom…
“Textures”

“Draped In Fringe”

“What Accident?”

Referencing previous crash photo, the driver must have taken the sign literally! Maybe a bus was coming…
“Oops!”

Heard it when it happened outside.
“Daw-Dit”

“Sky Pony”

“Sunlit Garden”

(Rez – Underworld)
Outcome
To break any cycle, I must no longer play the game.
Chuckles
It seems that I must keep myself amused and take solace in these brief moments of levity.
Feeling Alone
It has seemed that the goal one should have when feeling alone is to somehow break the cycle by expanding out from one’s isolation and becoming a part of the greater collective.
However, finding that I can not do that to anywhere near prior capacity, the alternative given to me is to learn to not give a f***.
Individuation
Porous
Like a sea sponge
Dependent upon
Environment
Absent
Stimulation
Draws
Deprivation
Can I change
My nature?
Offshoot from
Community
Establishing new
Terrain
Independence
I must break free of attachments which do not reciprocate my fealty to them.
(Bring Me To Life – Evanescence)
Compassion
I wonder at times if I understand and accept in people’s variability more than I ought to.
(Two Months Off – Underworld
(Frequency Of Love – Milky Chance)
(My Body – Young The Giant)
Today’s Tally’s
Worked. Helped people.
Earned money. Spent on supplies.
And helped a woman on tbe street in need.
(Days Go By – Dirty Vegas)
Reducing Distress
In analyzing the frenetic hindbrain impulsing, the one thing I can learn to change is not letting myself get caught up in the whirlwind of it.
It may still press and try to drive me, but if I exert my will and become specifically disciplined in my scheduling, then I can reduce adding to it.
Perhaps I can accept less of my productivity – yet, increase quality by gaining the rest that I need.
(Need To Feel Loved – Reflekt, Adam K & Soha Vocal Mix)
Rewrite
I need to figure out how to revamp the script of my life: perceptions, interpretations, and how I use and reboot my inner light.
My Life’s Journey
The one consistency has been disruption – so I need to figure out how to make it work for me.
It Crimps
I am already here, so why does it hurt so much?
We have acquired after 12 years of struggle a new starting point.
Why the pressure as if I am encountering resistance?
I face it head on, but lowered – with shoulders hunched and squared forward.
Preparing for work tomorrow requires acknowledging the anxiety brought on by that stupid 5 mgs of prednizone days ago.
My counselor suggests that ssri’s are great for reducing fight or flight reactivity from trauma.
Why? Why would I wish to conscript my already fragile system to more suppressionism?
I do not react well to medications of any kind.
Who and what I am just wants to figure out how to effectively function on my own again.
“Artisan”

What do an artist’s hands tell us? They speak of time weathered and fashioned by imagination and marks of strength from trials overcome.
Note in the web between my thumb and forefinger: a wedged cut from a slipped chisel stroke in my senior year of highschool while holding an item I was carving during an outside fire drill.
And more recently just above there is subtle bruising – likely from two days ago when I erected large chain link panels to prevent deer from gettimg into our front gardening yard.
“Woodshop, 1988-1989”

The central crystal was based on my first crystal earring. It actually had a feather-shaped prism within it and was from my first Renaissance Faire in Hanford when I was seventeen.
(Machine Elves – Pierro)
Unconditional Love
An issue with unconditional love is that if one truly ascribes to it, it becomes difficult to have proper boundaries – and to recognize when certain situations have become too toxic for one’s health and continued involvement.
It’s Hard To Believe
So much unnecessary pain in life comes from people accidentally misunderstanding each other.
As Of Now
Yes…let the healing bathe me.
I need it, want it, and must learn how to embrace it.
Agony’s Reprieve
My youngest and I got through the thickest; my eldest and I are reconnecting; and my ex and I have neutralized toward distant friendship.
(Here’s To The Heartache – Nothing More)
“With Time Comes Grace…”
In The Grips
I “Swear to God” that this resurgence of trauma processing better dislodge and topple its foundation because there is only so much more pain and suffering from this that I can take before I fe-cking break!
Altered Destiny
Sometimes, no matter one’s efforts or intentions in swimming life’s currents, forces greater than them can push them too far out to sea – and then leave them crashed and broken on some foreign shore far away from where they first began. And then, they find that there is no home to return to.
Knocked Off Track
Before our first breakup, we had the makings of an amazing life together and I was on my way back to him to tell him that I had figured out how we got misdirected. But then his accidents happened – and from then on, there was never room given for our amends. We were thrown back together and my message rendered mute as survival and family relations took precedence.
He Said,
“You don’t need me, you know…you have everything that you need, contained inside your head.”
I Was Right
It was a bacterial infection – and after the first day’s double dosage, my lungs are quickly responding!
Antithesis
If I am at the bottom of the swing, there is only going up from here.
“Many Birds”
Weathering Lack
The barnacles along tidal pools understand that when nourishment of water receeds, they must hold on tight to their grips as seal and wait for the tide to return again.
Pre-Sets
When one craves power, they can be controlled.
