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TED: vulnerability

February 17, 2011 in Parental, Politics, Religiosophy with 0 Comments

this post and several before it are fantastic pieces about the things in Egypt from someone actually living in Egypt.

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i always carried my son. in fact, i carried him a recently as about 8 months ago and he’s 7.5 years old now! i never understood the desire for confining a baby in a ‘bucket’ aka car seat for times other than when they are actually in a moving vehicle. kind of beyond me. this article is full of information that seemed logical to me at the time, speaks to my instincts and might help out some folks.

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The Power of Vulnerability — Yes! Yes! Yes!

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Wisdom Teeth

 

poem

February 16, 2011 in Life with 0 Comments

tears.
relief.
sighs.
burdens shifted.
breathing.
genuine smile.
no shame.
no guilt.
gazing… not at one another, but forward – together.
love.

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safeword

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today is a good day. even my bones are happy. can bones actually be happy? rhetorical.

 

books, soup, sony and stuff

February 12, 2011 in Entertainment, Grub, Life with 2 Comments

potato & leek soup*

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did yinz know that Sony is a crybaby?

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books arrived today. Women Who Run With the Wolves (which I mentioned here), Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives and Opening Up (which I had a copy of ages ago, but I’ve decided to read it again – rereading this book actually makes polyamory, in any shade, less attractive and that’s not the feeling I walked away with when I read it back in 2008… there’s a lot of “just get over it” in the book – rather invalidating for a lot of people I would assume… hhhmmmm… and I’m a huge fan of Tristan and her work).

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cuddle fart

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I’m thinking about trying to do the Friday Fill-Ins… I’ll give it a go this coming Friday and we’ll see what happens.

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* and no, I didn’t forget to link to a picture or recipe. I made potato & leek soup, was eating it while blogging and thought I should pass along the concept of such wholesome goodness… that is all.

UPDATE: apparently, I’ve done a Friday Fill-In before! Well, we’ll try that again ;-)

 

our stories – part 3 – who the fuck am i & where the hell am i going?

February 7, 2011 in Life, Religiosophy with 11 Comments

I’m in a funk.

I found myself depressed last week because of things that happened the week before; I had chosen to ignore my feelings at the time in an effort to have a positive and happy birthday week — for the most part, that worked, but it all caught up with me towards the end of this past week.

I thought about cutting (haven’t done that since I was like 12). I thought about running away (that’s never solved my problems, only made them worse). I’ve moved passed these things. Don’t worry, friends.

Now… here I am in a funk.

There are things I want to say, but it’s too late or not really important now. There are things I want to do, but I can’t. There are places I want to be, but I can’t go there now.

I tend to be a fairly guarded person (trying not to be here) and have a hard time letting others in, but in this moment, I’m having a hard time letting myself out. What does that mean exactly, I’m not sure. My eyes are welling up with tears right now as I type, but I have no idea why.

I’ve tried to talk some about what I am feeling and about some of the thoughts running through my head, but every time I open my mouth, nothing comes out right; I end up saying things wrong or saying the wrong things. I’m having a terrible time articulating what’s on my mind and it’s so frustrating.

Everything ends up sounding like I’m terribly unhappy and I am unhappy about somethings, but for the most part, I am very happy and extremely grateful for what I have and for who is in my life.

I need to say a lot of things to several people, but somethings, I don’t have words for and somethings, probably would be better off not said and like I said earlier, somethings would be too late and pointless to say.

Arrrgh, I’ve never really been in an emotional rut/funk like this before. I’ve had writer’s block, but never emotional-block or rather, articulation-of-emotions-block.

I’m really at a loss as to what to do. I feel like I need to spend some time away from everyone and everything and just sleep and write – write everything and anything that comes to my head. I need to figure shit out. I need to clear my head.

And that’s weird, because I spend a lot of time alone… well, a lot of time isolated from adults.

I need to figure out what I am doing anymore. I need to figure out where I am going these days. I think I’ve kind of lost myself and she was really fucking awesome – I’d like to have her back. Any time now. Thanks.

Jesus, I sound like a whinny 45 year old having a mid-life crisis (no offense to any whinny 45 year olds out there having a mid-life crisis) and I’m only 29.

I went through a such a terrible spell. A terrible spell of being such a terrible person in the past few months and not knowing how to not be terrible – feeling so literally out of control of everything that I just made life so miserable for so many people, people that I love. I was faced with an obstacle and I didn’t know how to deal with it, get around it or jump over it. So, I just tried to avoid it or run head first into it – needless to say, neither of those approaches worked.

I’m still not there. But, I think I see light at the end of this tunnel.

I don’t really know where to go from here, but I guess I’ll figure that out.

Everything always seems to work out in the end.

I have hope – I *have to* have hope, right?!

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For those of you who like comics. I LOVE the 3rd link – I relate to Nemi, but I am so much Erika in Dar!

Alison Bechdel

Dar!

Nemi

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Last but not least another good old xkcd.

 

Nemi Does It Again

July 3, 2009 in Entertainment, Media with 4 Comments

For those of you who don’t know, I am a HUGE fan of Nemi. I especially like it when she has something to say about children or being a child — she is afraid of growing up, despite the fact that she is an ‘adult’. In so many ways Nemi and I are alike. I admire her ability to sum up a person in a short little ‘talk-bubble’. So, here’s the most recent strip of Nemi. Click on the picture to enlarge it a bit.

You can find Nemi in the Metro every day or have it sent to your blog/news reader via this feed.

 

End of April 2009

April 30, 2009 in Photographs, Radical Unschooling, Unschlog with 0 Comments

We’ve spent some more time outside playing with our creation. We’ve decided that it makes for a much better way of ‘safely’ transporting people up and down the hill rather than goods. We still have plans to make a real block & tackle set up to get stuff up and down the hill.

We’ve been enjoying the plants and flowers that abound in our yard and our neighbor’s yard.



Reading comics with Lain. Comics from Oklahoma City…we enjoy it when relatives recycle newspapers for shipping materials!

Cooling our hot feet off in fountains is always fun. So is gently splashing college kids making out at the fountain :)

Reading stories authored by other children at the library.

I think we’ve ended April on a good note.

 
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