Tag: vulnerability
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The Beetle In My Box
Sometimes I feel more alone than alone. Because no matter who is around The beetle in the box is suffocating. So I open my head to let him breathe.
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Twisted Sonnet
I sat with my coffee and journal this morning and was feeling iambic. At first I was afraid my iron was low, but the hemogleebinglobbinglobin all the while and it was then I realized I was straining a terrible pun way beyond its tensile strength (you tensile! Fork you!)… but I digress… my puns are…
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Unmasking The Exile: Internal Family Systems & The Self
40+ years of surrendering in advance. 40+ years of self-deprecation as self-defense. 40+ years of believing what they tell me so that they’ll like me. 40+ years of wearing a mask that never let me fully breathe.
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Wherein He Gets Out Of His Own Head
And as long as I can create something in the face of madness, I feel that I am. Things fly apart… the center cannot hold. In the personal and the global, it can feel like slouching toward oblivion. But where trauma once triggered fight or flight, I’ve found a new tool. I’ve learned to create.…
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The Maestro is the Message
When you think it is pitch black you realize that you have electricity in you. I mean we are stardust after all. An imperceptible spark of biochemical electricity flickers in a synapse and an idea initiates a motor response and you find a way to stoke a spark and make something.
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write A [_______]
A silver lining to the thunderclouds of apocalyptic transformation is that their rains have a particular propensity to fertilize the fields of creation — a soil tilled and turned by the tectonic turbulence of an empathic existence.
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The A(DHD)symptotic Mind
“Sometimes the simplest tasks in my life can be asymptotic. ZeStroh’s Paradox is the variation of Xeno’s Paradox where the task, the simple task of putting the plate into the dishwasher breaks down like a fractal into molecular steps, atomic intricacies, nuclear nodules, protean particulars, electronic elements, and quarky points. Frozen it’s easier to put…
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The Vertigo of Power: Empathy, Gaslighting, and the Fight for Reality
Experience has taught me that empathetic love yields far better results—personally, professionally, and societally. Vulnerability feels like weakness at first, but it builds protection that’s lithe and ergonomic, not hardened like stainless steel.
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buckle up
“You see this deep tectonically supersonically quantum mechanically cosmic anomaly. Moves up through me and I have a sense of hope that eluded me as horror deluded me and fear be-nuded me.”