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Loss & Gain
The psychiatric professional on my mental health journey has taken on a position within another company. I’m struggling with my personal loss, but so thankful for all that’s been gained. When I started this over a year ago, I didn’t know what to expect and now I find myself looking forward to those check-ins. I’ve…
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Ghosts
This week has left me bruised, but no worse for wear. Taking yet another tumble, down the stairs this time around, I’m feeling less confident in my walking abilities than I use to be. There’s a ghost in the room. Are you real or just in my head? All these things I should’ve said. I’m…
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Nostalgia
Per the usual, I’m missing a different time period. Each generation has its own unique gifts, but none seem to connect with me fully. I have a fleeting recollection of a time where it all seemed so much simpler. It seems I’m not the only one missing an era. A request comes in for John…
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Ego
I’ve always been intrigued by the devil. Not in the new age Christian idea of an eternal evil, but the idea to ask “why?” The push to break chains, it’s only natural, is it not? Kali is the destroyer of illusion, the breaker of ego. This feels more devil to me than Satan’s prince of…
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Madness
Seeing a new therapist. It’s been enlightening in its own gentle ways. I’m always grateful for a perspective change. I’ve never had a male therapist before and already I’m getting somewhere with the usual suspects in my melancholy mind. In the early morning, I catch a view that stops my madness completely and lets me…
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Tarot Making
As a side project, I’ve started making the beginning stages of a deck of tarot cards. It’s themed with feminism, but without the extremist radicalism. Both mythical and real, it’s about empowerment for all women. It sounds cheesy, but it feels thrilling to render. The quiet hearth, the eternal flame, keeper of sanctuary — The…
