Monday, March 8, 2021

Excavation

I've not been writing lately. 
Not even journaling.
I think about writing, things I'd write about.
But it stops there, after the conversations in my head about such things.
Sometimes I get insights.
Sometimes I type those insights into words on my iPhone's Note-app, to remind me of them.
But mostly, by the time time allows me to write, my energy for such has dissipated. 
The faded conversations get stored in some retrievable or irretrievable space-place. 

But is there any such thing as irretrievable? 
Are the disappearers... 
(those emotions, thoughts, revelations 
buried or drowned into oblivion)
are they stored in an internal, mercurial, ethereal, other-conscious world,
seeded to emerge in some other form?

What is that form?
In what fashion does it manifest?
Dis-ease of the mind and body?
Dis-ease of the soul, even soul-suicide?

Not the suicide of the physical, 
but rather, the emotional,
but rather, the self,
where one so stifles the soul's voice that it becomes 
suffocated,
only to then emerge,
reincarnate, 
in a form unidentifiable with its previous form, 
at least to the physical eye. 

O Exiles! 
buried, suffocated, drowned...
Be made manifest!
Be made free...

Such prayer causes me to tremble inside.

But there is nothing to be afraid of.
I am physically safe.
I am mentally safe.
I am emotionally safe.

With my excavation partner
--that is my soul, my essence, my being--
together, we can do this.
Can't we?

I have the tools.
Don't I?


Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Equanimity ~ Mantras that help me...

 
Today...

~May I be friends with my body, partners
~May I surrender...accept...forgive 
 ~May there be equanimity  

Today...

~May I have ease of well-being
~May I surrender...accept...forgive
~May there be equanimity 

Today...

~May I feel meaningful connection with at least one element in my environment
~May I surrender...accept...forgive
~May there be equanimity

Tonight...

~May I await sleep easily
~May I drift off peacefully
~May my dreams assist me

Equanimity...


Windowful of Treasures ~ Portal Connections


~ May I drift off peacefully ~



~ May my dreams assist me ~




Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Deer friends...

I lay in bed last night, waiting for sleep.
And I began to cry. 
I feel so defeated. Defeated. 

More tears flowed as I cataloged my losses.
Mainly friends who have gone missing. 
Though I'm really the one who went missing.

Then I counted the few friends who I still communicate with. 
I really am not able to do more. 
Neurological fatigue simply doesn't allow it.

This morning, I awoke to tears.
I pushed my weary body out of bed.
I opened the blinds.

A lone deer was in the back yard.
Meandering. 
Sniffing the ground. 
She came almost, all the way, up to the deck.
My heart smiled.

The other night, three doe and two fawns were laying in the back yard.
They bring me comfort.

I'm still dealing with shingles.
The boils are gone, along with the intense pain.
But the fatigue continues, multiplying my normal fatigue.
And my head, inner ear, and jaw still hurt. 
On my right side.
Low level pain. 
And they itch.
And a sore appeared in my mouth.
On my top gum, right side.
Another shingles gift, I reckon.

My next epidural is on November 30th.
It will be number 32. 

I wonder how long Job was sick?