Another Poem for Mothers
Erin Belieu

Mother, I'm trying ( Read more... )

Today's been a very mixed bag kind of day.

I woke up this morning, to have to handle the flat I got while at the rodeo last night, which turned into having to buy two expensive new tires. My mother bought me breakfast and we handled my new cellphone plan during that -- which, at least in the first spark of good new in weeks -- is $30+ cheaper ( Read more... )

XXI - Your 10 favorite foods

1. Tea* - I drink upwards of 6-8 cups of this a day just at work. I own a world stock of tea in my kitchen.

2. Godiva Chocolates * - Almost never repeating truffles, ever. Except the Dark Caramel Embrace is almost always my go-to free chocolate a month for my (free!) membership. Then. Hrm. The pumpkin spice in the fall ( Read more... )

XX - A difficult time in your life

My sister's first death scare. My parents divorce. My sister dying of cancer when I was fifteen. My sister living with cancer for the thirteen years before that. Having ADHD so bad I grew up very, very, very intimately aware of what passive restraint meant from the age of four. The first two people I fell in love ( Read more... )

IXX - What do you collect?Comics. Kindle books. Hardcover annotated books. Polished gem stones. Essential oils. Icons. Chakra related things. Most anything blue. Yankee candle votives and large jars. States, and counties, and countries. Every new drop ocean I can find, and something from each new beach. Victoria Secret bras and underwear. Bath & ( Read more... )

XII - What is your earliest memory?My earliest memories that I can be sure are memories -- and are not half-stressed, maybe half imagined things -- are from living in the Carolina's with my father, when I was 3, and he'd taken me with him while he was stationed on the coast for the better part of a year (USAF; while my mom and very still new born ( Read more... )

A little later, but this one was taking its sweet time finishing.

XI - List 15 of your favorite things

1. Danny Williams & Steve McGarrettI can not even put into words how much these two characters make me happy right now. How much time in every part of my day they take up. Whether it's new episode, rewatching old episodes, listening to a ( Read more... )

[Three days late, from the formatting begin done Saturday morning, but insanity likes to take precedence.Present plan is to do this as the pre-chakra work, as suggest by one of my many books, but, also, to do it between every single year, as a check-in at the end of each Chakra Year/Check-in for the Next One, and at the end of it, too. It will ( Read more... )

To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
To-day's your natal day;
Sweet flowers I bring:
Mother, accept, I pray
My offering.

And may you happy live,
And long us bless;
Receiving as you give
Great happiness.

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Last month a friend of mine reached out and asked me to write an article for her nature-based blog for February. Something about bonds or love, and how you she not ask me. Love. This thing that is always on the tip of my tongue. And so I wrote her the long winding tale that has been sung by my heart, and my blood for this past year, about my Mother ( Read more... )