arfie
Status: knowledge is all past tense. i can't **know** a thing until it has already happened. stay in the present tense. stay ignorant.
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How bright you are, my well-lit oneGlaring all throughout the nightProtecting yourself from the clever thievesWho rapel down down from the trees Trees you have lit so wellCasting inky black shadows...
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I seem to be gaining ground on the light meditations. I have been doing them since I regained my stability after winter's round of lightmares. I am still dangerously close to triggering from the...
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The first bird to buzz me here in the new yard was a red bird I later identified as a vermilion flycatcher. I consider him to be my oldest friend here in the new neighborhood. Bug eating birds are...
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I am on a photography binge. Nothing unusual there. Going buggy on it. Also nothing unusual. I love bugs. Humans only think they are diverse. Insects are second only to plants in their...
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My extreme reaction to light has been called, "photophobia." My botany/biology training argues that photophobes do not like much of any kind of light. Eg., mushrooms and earthworms.I LOVE light. I...
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I never did get "holiday spirit." Father's Day is the spirit I am not getting today. My husband is in Houston paying homage to his father. I am giving him space to work through his family issues...
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Metaphors come to me as naturally as security lights to a stormy afternoon. A sensor trips and off I go with metaphor on top of metaphor. I think of English as my second language. Sensory inputs are...
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I compare compulsively. Is it a strength or a weakness?When it enables me to knock out a graphic package in record time using pieces of prior packages, it is a serious people pleaser. It earns me...
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I often feel a massive confusion I am currently calling, "therapeutic schizophrenia." Whatever you care to call it, the current round is skidding around the latest workshop I am attending at the VA....
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Week two of the ACT at the VA.Earlier this week my newly engaged son was burning time before he picked up his fiance to go for a first round of pre-marital counseling. In our last conversation on the...
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Boundaries are a huge discussion for incest survivors. Being raised in a tribe of 11 siblings with zero boundaries surrounding the 3rd primal instinct of reproduction causes serious misunderstandings...
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My solar plexus is abuzz with that electric feel that will not be ignored. It isnae abnormal for me. As a child it would send me into a hyper-active tizzy. As a young adult it became my call to...
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Long term relationships are not my strong suit. The instability of my childhood made them impossible. As an adult I remain somewhere between incapable and uninterested. Yet, somehow, I am approaching...
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Even among local native gardeners it is hard to find support for my notion that summer is the desert's natural dormant season. My most sincere truth is that my gardening is a feel good activity. I...
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Hubby went back to work yesterday. My definition of "vacation" might be my most radical change in the 17 years since I stopped working for a paycheck of my own and took up full-time housewoofery. As...
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