2 December 2018 As a human being I am pretty well shot. There is really no emotional cushion or padding to buffer my negotiations through the world. It is my faith alone that gives me the ability to continue here among humanity. Perhaps it always was. I am a loner. I do not mind that.…
One thing that I learned in my trek out west to see my birth mother is that I was the one who separated us. I would not give her an inch. At ten or so, I had to keep my sanity stable within myself because I knew that no one out there was going…
NOW, in the moment, the present, I had defined it in 2014 as No illusion, All-encompassing, the W is to me, an upside down M to bring from heaven Christ’s Millenial Reign that I had been taught throughout my Christian years. I am only now (18 years later) reading The Power of Now by Eckhart…
A ghost in an environment that flows around me. This is how I feel. I stand here as one identity and watch an incredible dance of life, destructive life, all around. It seeped into my consciousness a bit at a time. I had thought maybe it was only our family. Turns out that the same…
Part One Like a shadow or a fly on the wall. That is how I feel in life so many times. It could make me feel left out or alone. Loneliness is something I did not feel when I was younger, it was more a sense of not being able to speak a similar language. Or…
2007, that is when I noticed the attention of an older man at the singles group I attended. His attention was special and loving. He was a warm, big-hearted family man, whose loving wife had passed several years before. We had chats and visits through email and on the phone. He touched my heart in…
I have been a Mormon for a long time. I buy in bulk and stock up on all the necessities. As a 60 plus woman who lives alone, I still hoard, as my daughter mentioned after helping clear my apartment (chuckle), when I went to the state of Washington to be near my mother whom…
I feel a bit lost. I admit that. Do I stay in Washington state, near my mother and some siblings who have decided my visiting mom is detrimental to her welfare or do I return to the Midwest and focus on my writing while being able to see six of eighteen grandchildren and 1 of…
Being homeless sucks! just sayin….. Personally, I do not believe that homelessness is caused by economics, drugs, or such things though I agree that it would seem so on the surface and that you can point to those things in individual cases….. rather, I believe that homelessness is caused by the lack of human engagement…the…
It seems like, even today, at nearly 60 years old, when I feel good about a task or a choice I have made someone who is a person of trust, a friend or an authority figure, will come up and tell me that I messed up and it nearly cripples me inside. It seems as…