Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

mw, saw this....thought of you having a bit of a rough day....

[Calz]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Oh, I love this village. Much easier to visualize this into being!

Best be careful ... me thinks Our Village Plumber is a card carrying Union Member.

That might not go over very well ...

[9eagle9]

With family particularly siblings its basically you go through your process and recover from family abuse. Then your siblings don't, or are in denial about it or are not in denial but don't want to discuss it. This tends to disinvalidate all the hard work that one has to do on themselves to recover. It becomes like a living wall between you and your family , the literal elephant sitting in the room that you can see and they either, can't or wont. Or go to that place of "Yes I know there's an elephant in the room, I don't want to talk about it."

Posted by astrid (here)
Ditto on the family stuff,
yet another reason for my online
persona.

It gives me the space i need away from others
that were sucking on my energy.

That and its another way of respecting another's rights to their take on things.
It's just not a reality i exist in anymore , nor have i energy for.
They have their space and i have mine.
And it's all good.

[1inMany]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Oh, I love this village. Much easier to visualize this into being!

Best be careful ... me thinks Dan the Plumber is a card carrying Village Union Member.

That might not go over very well ...

Lol, Dan can HAVE that one! I gladly step aside

[astrid]

"It becomes like a living wall between you and your family "

Move that i had to built an entire house complete with a moat and army to
keep them out and allow me to do what I"m here to do.

Denial, yes but theses people are NUTS.
My Mother would send the police over if i didn't
answer her calls. It was beyond a joke.
I could not breathe.

Thank fully i learned how to deal with this,
but it took many many years.

The hard thing with dealing with people that are mentally
unwell is you can't play things straight, it doesn't work,
and you get tired in knots trying, or worse go crazy yourself.

You have to enter their world, and speak their language,
and use their " currencies" which at times
feels like you are lacking in integrity, and being untrue to yourself.
But when the prize is being free, the end does somewhat justify the means.
It's just unfortunate that at times there is no other way.

[SomaSmith]

Here and now... I needed a chuckle.
Upon reading the last few pages here I found that. And also found a mirror of my experiences with family and acceptance.

It has been a rough day for many reasons, all taken in stride.

Thank you all for making my day brighter.

[1inMany]

Ya know, Ernie, I used to get angry and heartbroken at the injustice in the world. It started with my legal battle against the school district where I used to teach. It was eye-opening to me how wrong I was to say "They can't do that!" I said that about a lot of situations in life, but I had to replace it over night with the realization that they can, and they do, and in fact they get away with it. I applied that to tptw, but so many other situations, too.

Like a ding-dong, I got curious about that "everybody has to see this" thread, and I peeked. Oh, brother. I really did not need that at all. I don't know why I took the bait.

I have a huge family - huge. When I add up all the sisters, brothers, half-sisters and -brothers, step-sisters and -brothers...there are 10. Aunts, uncles and cousins...lost track to be honest. Nieces and nephews...same. None of them get me. Not one. That used to bother me so deeply it would keep me up at night, and wanting to be understood was a driving force behind the relationships I tried to maintain single-handedly.

I can say with 100% honesty and 100% certainty, that I don't give a rats azz what they think at this point. I am not bitter, not lonely, not angry, and not even bothered by it. I used to go to certain handpicked functions, and the funny thing is that I don't even want to any more. I have truly become that lady at the grocery store that hums the unidentifiable tune, lost in my own little world, content to be humming my own song-which, by the way, usually is a real song lol.

My heartfelt compassion to you, my friend. I may not know what you are going through, but I do know what emotional pain feels like...and anger at injustice...and wishing for one thing or another to be this way or that way. I hope everything gets resolved for you, and with as little emotional toil as possible.

[Calz]

Posted by SomaSmith (here)
Here and now... I needed a chuckle.
Upon reading the last few pages here I found that. And also found a mirror of my experiences with family and acceptance.

It has been a rough day for many reasons, all taken in stride.

Thank you all for making my day brighter.

Welcome to the Village.

Pull up a log.

[SomaSmith]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by SomaSmith (here)
Here and now... I needed a chuckle.
Upon reading the last few pages here I found that. And also found a mirror of my experiences with family and acceptance.

It has been a rough day for many reasons, all taken in stride.

Thank you all for making my day brighter.

Welcome to the Village.

Pull up a log.

Thanks Calz! I still feel like (and am) the new kid on the block. You have been a good friend. Not taken lightly.

[jackovesk]

I'll Tell Ya 'What's Happening' Right Now...

My 'Good Friend' Calz...



Has 'Ascended' already...

[Calz]

Posted by jackovesk (here)
I'll Tell Ya 'What's Happening' Right Now...

My 'Good Friend' Calz...



Has 'Ascended' already...

Well now ... Jacko has entered dah house.

"Having a party we are" ...

[Guest]

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Have good dreams

Love

Nora

we are all related

[ViralSpiral]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3t7IbrgckMQ

I'm pulling in the oars of this tiny boat,
growing weary of the rowing
and all the effort to reach some shore,
when it's not shore where I'm going

[modwiz]

Here and now, little by little, I come back into focus. Some thought they could focus, but focthem.

[Calz]

Posted by modwiz (here)
Here and now, little by little, I come back into focus. Some thought they could focus, but focthem.

Don't think I would want to be the Balrog at the moment ...

[ViralSpiral]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Sorry, thought it was a point for discussion. Forgot where I am. Won't happen again, I can promise you.

Ernie, do not turn away from that which you seek, which is healing.
Forgive others, and yourself.
As I whisper this from my heart to yours, I hear the echo....


♥♥♥♥

[eaglespirit]

Justice is as justice does...

the "just us" upside down mess is being right side up righted in every faction of every fiction!!!

[ulli]

This one is one more for Ernie.
My mum knew about my suffering as a child and made a poem in German which I later translated into English...it helped

I wish I were an elephant
So large would be my grin
Not for all my ivory
but for my thick skin.

[Sierra]

Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)

Posted by modwiz (here)
Here and now, little by little, I come back into focus. Some thought they could focus, but focthem.

Don't think I would want to be the Balrog at the moment ...

Indeed.

Hopping up on the Village quay to watch the action. The other village wizards have decided it is the better part of wisdom to save their strength and let the wizard do his thing, just setting wards around the entire village so no one enters, preferring that village business be village business, and lightning bolts don't hit the sheep flocks and Marianne's goats don't get upset, and eat the entire medicine garden. Again. The village shakes a little. Calz and Sierra watch a tile fall off the B&B across the street from the quay. The sky has turned a sullen orange.

Gazing left, I hear the grumbling and growling of the rocks deep in the earth. Lotus Blossom's cats are flowing down the hill to ward the Women's Valley to the South (where the moon ceremonies are held) while McKnao and Lucky strain to hold the valley gates open at this untimely star crossed opening. The remaining children and the volunteer emergency caretakers of the Village pour through. McKnao and Lucky leap inside and let the gates slam shut. The sun has set. Ulli and 1inMany light a fire in the women's amphitheatre pit, humming to the fire salamanders helping. The children are settled with blankets, pillows, marshmallows, and marshmallow sticks. Guitars are tuning up. Coffee and hot chocolate are brewing. Lotus Blossom's cats have set the valley wards and are leaping the walls one by one, to join McKnao and Lucky settled down by the fire.

Sierra looks at Calz, Calz looks at Sierra. "What are you doing here Sierra?", says Calz. Sierra grins. "Calz, I am one pissed bitch, and I intend to enjoy the show. Join me in the astral realm?"

Feeling perfectly safe, Sierra takes a deep breath, crosses her legs, closes her eyes, and sinks into the village consciousness.

[Calz]

Posted by Sierra (here)

Sierra looks at Calz, Calz looks at Sierra. "What are you doing here Sierra?", says Calz. Sierra grins. "Calz, I am one pissed bitch, and I intend to enjoy the show. Join me in the astral realm?"