Feeling the contrast between being away (in NC) and being here (in CA) has been useful. I am once again affirmed that my reasons for leaving were good ones, and I am more uncertain that the benefits of staying away are worth who and what I have to do without when I'm gone. It's got my imagination working over time to devise a compromise between ( Read more... )

I had a tarot reading last week. One of the pieces of advice he gave me was to find two fun ways to earn a little cash. He even gave me the first general idea free: self publish something from my experience. That wasn't hard to decide to do since I've been wanting to publish something coming from my own recovery and healing experience for a ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, much of the time I spent with Dan was punctuated by reminders of ways the world is not the utopia I dream of, not even close. Extinctions, sexism, crappy public transit, genocide, cancer, the military industrial complex, people who want to buy SUV's, all the various ways the world is fucked up that I was faced with during the ( Read more... )

This time it was more energetically focused.  She told me that the energy on my left side (feminine, dark, receptive) is all blocked up, and my 3rd chakra (who I am in the world) is cold and still.  Once I reframe this into my own preferred metaphors, none of this is surprising.  I've been focused on putting energy out and being masculine for the ( Read more... )

Comment with your answer, please.  Help me decide what to study.

I've got goals for my time here in Asheville, and it's time for me to pat myself on the back a little for what I've accomplished.  (I hope to counteract the frustration of searching for work.)  The overarching goal is to cultivate good habits and healthy stability to support me while I'm in grad school.  Judging from what other folks seem to go ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about focusing my path on helping highly sensitive folks and folks with Autism Spectrum Disorders.  In high school, I was really angry at the way the mainstream school system failed the really smart kids who didn't learn in a way that fit with the system, and I've had an interest in that particular area of cognitive difference since I ( Read more... )