It starts with the feeling. That’s just it, at its core. It’s a feeling or series of feelings that can wash over you, immobilize you, cloud your mind to the point that there’s no room for anything else. “Awash” is the idea, the concept that comes to mind. Something like, you become awash with powerful, …
Month: April 2021
Anxiety: A Personal Intro
I’ve been dealing with it all my life; for a long time I called it “worry” - more recently I’ve come to define it as anxiety. It’s pretty well been my constant companion since I was seven years old. So, why share some thoughts here now? Why not simply journal, or talk to a therapist? …
Blog Post Like A Tweet: “Surely, Tender, Lu”
She’s come a long way, this one; I guess all kids do; our Lu. Sure, powerful, daring; timid, shy, unwilling; she’s all these things and more. This pic, maybe two years back; still captures her essence: open, capable, somehow ready, even if she doesn’t always know it in the moment. She is, best we be, …
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Blog Post Like A Tweet: “Confidence Rising”
This guy, number two, been through a lot his eight years. So thankful for him and his tender way, his capacity for silly, even his defiance - he has a fight to be himself, through it all. Go man, GO.
Blog Post Like A Tweet: “Spring Break”
This one, number one, such an amazing soul. Humor, intelect, wit, insight, GOOD. Glad she’s related to me. 🙂
Lyrics Post: “Back to the Bay” by Daveed Diggs
Pretty well can't say enough good things about this dude, Daveed Diggs. Beyond his beats, his words, his Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson...I just pretty well love everything I've learned about him. He inspires, plain and simple. And he's a WARRIORS fan from Oakland, California. All the better, dig it, dig Diggs, Back to the Bay... …
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Just Live
Sometimes so hard, just live, just live. Chores and tasks and obligations and duties and demands, All demand your time, your attention, your Right Now!, moments, hours, days, It feels so anyway, feels anyway, all the more to me, To my mind, mixed up in it all, mixed up by it all, all mixed up …
Ritual
It’s a ritual, a ritual, turns out it’s habitual, One of the pups, she shows up, most every day, rubs away, early morn, as if to say, We’re here, don’t forget, is it breakfast time yet? Slow start, from the heart, feels good, this little rub along my side, can’t decide why, just gonna remind, …
Little Bits
Little bit a little bit, with it with it yeah, got to keep going, Knowing or not knowing, show it or not showing, sort of sure pretty sure, for certain sure, this is the way, part of the way, everyone is running, trying to keep up, Quipo quipo cama me quedara ella, OK apps, spin …
Be At Peace
One of the simple lessons I take from this season, this Easter Season? I am loved. I am forgiven. I am forever one of God’s children, Our Father, Our Mother indeed. And as such, even as I struggle and search and strive and stumble, Even still, each day, sometimes each hour I need to remind …