Fifteen minutes ago It was that day. The day I flew. The day I decided not to counteroffer on a house I really liked. The day I last heard “I love you so much.” The day I last shared a newspaper with anyone. I wonder when this day’s awareness will fade from my brain. When…
Tag: introversion
Who are you and what have you done with my Mother?
I can tell you first hand that widowhood sucks. Just like when you marry, you learn to blend, compromise and bend to fit into a pair and it is a little awkward – stops, starts, spills, so too, is widowhood. In a culture that practically elevates partnership to sainthood status, suddenly finding oneself pulling in…
Hitchhiking ghosts on road trips
I have made this run up 75 North so many times I should be able to do it in my sleep, but this is the first time in ten years I finally did it without taking a printed map. I’m directionally challenged in many ways and so I often don’t trust myself. But in the…
Free Flow
It is no mystery to those close to me that this is a difficult time. What follows is simply another free flow writing I did, similar to “Skin Tight” a few months ago. ****************************** It is trying to try, try and try again. It wearies and robs the soul of happiness that it is its…
8.20.14 Wordless Wednesday Hidden Stars After Rain
Thankful Thoughts
Photo Credit: BoredPanda.org “The Book of Life” – Artist David Kracov If I had a lot of money, I would so purchase this piece of sculpture. It is metal, and each butterfly is hand-painted. The book contains diary pages, poetry and notes written by the children of Auschwitz. I find it haunting and incredibly…
The rest of the story…
The other day I published a quote of my own. But in part, it was a lie. This was the quote: “Sexual abuse in the young creates the neediest people, who will tell you we need nothing; we live that way too. We are taught by actions that there is no real love; there is no trust,…
The Birthday Hike – Part 2
The pace and intensity of work lately has left me primed more than usual for pulling out the memories of this year’s earlier camping trip. It isn’t that I mind working (although independent wealth would be cool too, lol!). It is just that often it seems that there is nothing really productive about my days…
Discovery
There is nothing quite so heady and energizing as the time of discovering a new person, learning what makes them the unique individual that they are. Some people are torrents, filling in all of the rich details in an open, exciting rush – emotional Instagrams if you will. Others let themselves develop their emotional shading…
Being alone with greedy eyes and an open mind
As you know, I live in the city, in a studio smaller than most people’s garages, filled with boxes and containers from my farm. It was small before I brought anything in, it is much smaller in navigable space now, lol! So open space, I love it. It ain’t happenin’ here on a day to…
When the clients arrive…
I’ve led a fairly unobtrusive business life since leaving the Fortune 100 arena ten years ago. Long ago and far away, I used to fly a lot to client locations, speak before crowds, chat up potential customers at trade shows, and all of that jazz. As an introvert, that is some kind of tiring for…
Sunflower Solace Farm 