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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland ** Image ID #1701066 Unavailable **   |
| Blog City Day 2516 April 9, 2025 Prompt: Holding the ocean back with a broom. Write about this quote today as this applies to life and the problems we face. I have taken an usually long hiatus from writing. I have gone through periods of inactivity before but it seems that I have gone almost 6 months without writing anything outside press releases and work emails. I have always believed that writing is one of the ways I process and seek balance in my life and this notable absence in pursuit of that craft, has taken a mental toll. I have told myself that I am too busy, that there is too much I have to deal with to slow down and make the time. I have repeatedly silenced the internal narrator in my head. The truth is that I have gone to long without allowing my muse to use her voice. I have entrenched myself in the mire of stress and responsibilities of working life and I have sacrificed a part of myself, I have reduced myself in some critical way. Attempting to start again this morning, giving myself the time and the space to open up, feels a lot like holding the ocean back with a broom. Its not knowing where to begin and needing to tell it all to myself at once. I feel the need to check in with myself and the writer I have allowed to languish in the shadows of my overcrowded mind. My ocean is a tide of conflicting facts and emotions. I am a woman struggling with the onset of middle age, the grace and the challenges that come with that age-ful distinction. I am a mother to a teenage daughter who's blossoming youth and ever-growing beauty both fills my heart with joy and simultaneously reminds me how far I have moved away from those things myself. I am a hard working career woman who has finally achieved a position of power and authority in my company, but sometimes the knowledge that I am responsible for all the families attached to the company makes it hard for me to breathe. And while I believe I make every decision from a place of pride and love for what we've built together, it never stops me from second-guessing myself - even if I do it in the wee hours of the morning where no one can see my doubt and fear that I am good enough to led them. I am a wife, who finally feels like I can plan a forever with a man who has proven himself to be good, gentle and safe. I am also the person who can still be triggered into remembering the dark corners of my past, where old wounds still ache and wagons wait to be circled around my fledgling, fearful heart. I am a writer. I am still a writer, and the sound of my tapping keys will always bring me home. - Blogging Circle of Friends Day 3802 April 9th, 2025 “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” ― Frederick Douglass Sounds familiar doesn't it? Your thoughts on this quote. Your thoughts on what's happening in the US. I have a dear friend who is very concerned about the current state of affairs. We recently connected and I was really affected by how agitated and legitimately afraid she was for her friends, her loved ones and her own future. We have somewhat different views on politics. Though I tend to be a bit more conservative in my political views, I am also a registered independent who finds more middle ground on most of the politically charged issues. Where she is drawn to marches and demonstrations, I am opt to avoid activism in public forums. I don't like crowds, and I seek more private, individual ways to both protest and support the issues that matter to me. I respect that for some, like my friend, those demonstrations feel like something they can do in a world, and in a time, when they feel isolated and unheard. I also understand there are many people now who feel oppressed and degraded. As time goes on, even I am starting to lose faith in the image of a strong and unified country. Learning to drive a boat is a tricky skill. Most are not as responsive as a car so when you steer, you have to anticipate what it will do. Sometimes, small movements of the wheel are best to stay on course. If you react too much, you can over correct and the boat ends up too far to the right or the left. It takes practice to anticipate the movement correctly so that those large swings in direction can be avoided. Like a big, beautiful boat, I believe that the country needed some correction. In many ways, we had reached a tipping point and had veered too far off course. I had hoped for a leader who would anticipate the moves correctly to get us back on track and to get us re-balanced. I fear more and more that what I am seeing instead, is just another severe over-correction. |
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