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Broken Bottleneck
Today, I fear, is going to be little more than a rant. And, it may well be my last post for a week or so. See, me and technology have...
bystresscookie
Nov 18, 20183 min read
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Tightrope walking
Early morning mental acrobatics. Desperately trying to wind my mind around the task of giving constructive criticism. This has become...
bystresscookie
Nov 16, 20182 min read
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Observer Effect
We truly lost ourselves when we started judging how we feel. Emotions are not good or bad in themselves. Being in pain is no more right...
bystresscookie
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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Turning tides… Telling times…
As I shift, so does my clock. If only I could make it stop. Catch that dragon’s tail. Catch my breath. Why can’t time ebb and flow...
bystresscookie
Nov 14, 20181 min read
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Ebb and flow
Nothing is truly static. Even the hardest stone’s molecules dance. Likewise, as I decelerate into depressive states and become...
bystresscookie
Nov 13, 20181 min read
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Technical difficulties
The “damage control coordinator” longs for retirement. It has been a long run. At least thirty-five years of service. I think we have...
bystresscookie
Nov 12, 20181 min read
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An Artist’s Statement
I am submitting my first three works for exhibition today. And, I have spent the better part of the past five hours trying to finalize...
bystresscookie
Nov 9, 20181 min read
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Any drip will do
The tap didn’t turn on this morning. It appears to be waiting for me to actually to do something about that. Like an aging tenant...
bystresscookie
Nov 8, 20181 min read
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Paradise found or logic lost?
I find myself shaking my head almost constantly these days. As much at myself as the next person. I fear sanity has left us for good. ...
bystresscookie
Nov 7, 20181 min read
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Finding flow
The dark, early morning creeps in like a thief. Four-thirty AM likes my company. And, my body betrays me, almost without fail, by...
bystresscookie
Nov 6, 20182 min read
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Routines
There is something about having plans that is so comforting. Even though they never come off without a hitch. Waking in the morning...
bystresscookie
Nov 5, 20181 min read
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From rut to groove and back again… And, forward… And, back…
Thursday was a day, kids. I actually wrote a lot of this that day on my phone while I travelled home in transit. Writing is one of the...
bystresscookie
Nov 3, 20184 min read
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The conundrum of the day
Really no different from any other day. Every decision is like a double-edged sword with no hilt I must carry by balancing on the tip of...
bystresscookie
Oct 31, 20181 min read
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Happy Toosday!
A few years back, I found myself in the hospital for a few weeks. While “doing the ‘Descartes'” as I liked to call it, it dawned on me...
bystresscookie
Oct 30, 20181 min read
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Untitled
Monday morning. Lacking substance. The “real world” had me on hold before 6 am. In a queue of sixty-two, I juggled notions of many...
bystresscookie
Oct 29, 20181 min read
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Crash out of me
These days, when emotional tears rise, they are preceded by a burning pain that shoots though my ducts. Like some blast that had to...
bystresscookie
Oct 28, 20181 min read
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Contemplating Cannabis
I have long been a believer that I, and many like me, fare much better using cannabis, combined with therapy and ongoing psychological...
bystresscookie
Oct 28, 20182 min read
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Energy is never created nor destroyed.
Gazing in the morning haze. Contemplating the transformation of decay. Heat and moisture, rising mist, leaving dead foliage to mulch. ...
bystresscookie
Oct 26, 20181 min read
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Soaring on burning wings
Am I on fire? Purging? “Cath-art-ing” my way to myself? Yesterday, I stopped stopping and let all of my hot air lift me like a great...
bystresscookie
Oct 25, 20182 min read
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If it can be conceived, it can be.
Embryonic thoughts in stasis hang, like stalactites, in my cavernous subconscious. Waiting to be gestated. Slowly growing over time. ...
bystresscookie
Oct 23, 20181 min read
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