Category Archives: Friends
New Responsibilities, New Freedoms
Writer’s Island prompt #16 Brand New Day Have a friend who is a receptionist for a well-known Law office. As such, she is the first impression new clients meet when they arrive. She told me of an experience she had … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, change, Choice, Friends, Mr. Obama, New Freedoms, New Responsibilities, preconceived notions
Tagged actions and choices, age, age 65, brand new day, clutching purses, color, commit, concrete proof, Danish descent, fact and experience, finding common ground, gender, gift ourselves, hooking into opposite, Mr. Obama, older white woman, preconceived notions, profound conversation, reality, receptionist, silent boundaries, threshold
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Final Accounting: 2008
Today is the last day of this year, 2008. I have spent some time, looking back on the days, weeks, and months that are passing into my personal history, perhaps better labeled herstory. This has been an incredible year, … Continue reading
Posted in American Idol, awakenings, change, David Cook, discipline, Dreams, experience, Final Accounting, Friends, Life, perspective, Poetry, teach, Time, writing
Tagged A Woman of Color, accounting, activities, American Idol, awakenings, blogging, challenges, change, counseling, David Cook, deeper meaning, diabetes, different, disciplines, Dreams, friendships, fulfillment, gratitude, herstory, inner couch potato, last day of year, new and old, objective voice, on the page, overstuffed rocking chair, pleasure, Poetry, prose, regimens, risks, satisfaction, soul's music, success, support and encouragement
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In The Way of the Fox
The fox, the Wild Thing, Masks, the socialization process blanket, and how it all fits together. Continue reading
Posted in Blanket, boundaries, Choice, creature, Definitions, Family, Fox, Friends, Journal Writing, Logic, Masks, socialization process, Society, wild thing
Tagged actions and choices, avatars, backtracking, Definitions, example, family as basic social unit, footprints, Fox, Friends, group, history, hounding pursuers, inadequate, inappropriate, individual, influence, lacking in logic, Masks, masquerade ball, membership, peer group, secret society, skewed view, socialization process blanket, target, unbalanced, wild thing
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Back To The Wild Thing and A Little Bird
Although my last blog looked to be a departure from the things I have been writing about (Wild Thing), it really wasn’t. Go back and reread the words to that old folk song that introduces the previous article. The … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Anger, captivity, Choice, Connections, creature, curiosity, following bliss, Friends, Joseph cambell, movement, Mythology, Observer, poem, story, This Little Bird
Tagged advice, boy/man, captivity, curiosity, Dreams, flight, flitting, follow your bliss, friend or foe, hummingbird, Joseph Campbell, joy, little bird, patience, poem, progress, promise, senses, sniff, wild creatures, wild thing
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“Rainy Day People”
by Gordon Lightfoot Rainy day people always seem to know when it’s time to call Rainy day people don’t talk They just listen til they’ve heard it all Rainy day lovers don’t lie when they tell you They been down … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Relationship, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged "Rainy Day People", a Jesus with skin on Him, belief systems, best friend, best rainy day friend, embrace, enduring value, essentially alone, fear, Gordon Lightfoot, loneliness, personal level, song lyrics, struggle, writing daily
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Checking The Temperature
I have spent the last three days watching my temperature rise and fall drastically in both directions. I am speaking of my emotional temperature, not my physical one, although the physical one did some jumping around because of the other, … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged "A Cloister Walk", "Emotional Weather Report", assignment, choices, dark clouds, degree, deny, dust storm, flood warnings, Friends, horizon, ignore, Kathleen Norris, private, reality, remember, so and so, temperature, thermometer, Tom Waits, torrential rains, weather conditions, weather man
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Anger As Energy Flow
I have done my part, and whatever happens, will simply happen. But it will only happen at my choosing. That knowledge alone, is worth the few tears I shed. ___quoted from last post After years of words that were not understood, or … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Biography, Choice, Creativity, emotional content, Family, Friends, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Relationship, Self-Awareness, Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Anger, Choice, confrontation, Creativity, energy flow, journal, pain, Poetry, questions, resolution, writing
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The Unspeakable
Today, in my journal, I found myself writing about an ‘unspeakable’ pain I have carried around inside of me for almost ten years. Where do you go with something like that? Something so hurtful, that to unleash it, to open … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Biography, Choice, Creativity, emotional content, Family, Friends, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Relationship, Self-Awareness, Therapy
Tagged abondonment, betrayal, distrust, expense, fear, friend, healing, journal, pain, resolution, Therapy, writing
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