Decorated or Defiled


 

Decorated or Defiled

An Old Year Happily Discarded

Slate fresh clean Brand New

 

Last year’s implosion old news

Broken, Battered and Beat Up 2017 has left the building

 

And We Danced. And We Danced. And We Danced. Until the Dream was over.

What we run away from is what may save us

 

That being Moxie and Mystery

 

Tapestry pulled into the murky underbelly of a concussion

Pain, sorrow and death are are bosom buddies  Boon companions following your every step.  I kissed a rose and bled deeply and profusely through the thorns.

Muddy Murdered Mannequins being dragged though slimy red clay

Bashed in heads semi-attached to conflicted torsos. Splattered blood pointillism across the magic carpets

There is a bird inside me pecking out my innards screeching release.

 

 

 

2018 is filled with Amplified Astronomical Moxie

 

Religion

“Absorb what is useful and discard what is useless.” ~ Bruce Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Share Your World – January 1, 2018


 

https://ceenphotography.com/2018/01/01/share-your-world-january-1-2018/

Share Your World – January 1, 2018

 

 

What one word describes you best?

Tough

What is set as the background on your computer?

This is a clunky notebook so whatever comes up. Usually some sort of Nature scene.

If you have been to a foreign country name those you have been too?

Thanks to Uncle Sam I was stationed in Germany. I took vacation in Spain plus some of the surrounding European countries.  I’ve also been to Nassau, Bahamas, Jamaica West Indies and Canada. Probably a few more that I can’t remember.

 

If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?

Since I don’t like to cook Yes for cooking, plus doing laundry, sweeping, mopping, etc. Housework takes a lot out of me and after each task I must lay down. I’m exhausted. Frankly I need help with everything!

My room-mate does the Yard work.

If you were to move and your home came fully furnished with everything you ever wanted, list at least three things from your old house you wish to retain?

My cat Sylvester

Computer

And of course personal items.

What calms you down?  Sleep. Being a high strung person the only time I’m really calm is when I’m asleep and sometimes not even then.  However I’ve become very good at hiding my anxiety and internal panic. Sometimes that does not work and I get horrendous headaches which started in October 2017. Let’s hope the headaches go away in 2018.

 

What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?  Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination. 

I very seldom do or buy anything for myself especially during the Holiday Season as things  are very hectic at work but I actually purchased some things I needed and wanted.

 Same Sylvester/New Kicks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Return of the Fiery Spirit


 

The Return of the Fiery Spirit

Happy New Year!!

TRIGGER WARNING! RED ALERT!

 

Yes I’m back. After a much-needed break during which time I gave myself the opportunity to reflect. My blog had taken off in a wrong direction. Basically I was caught up. Lots of frustration. Too many obligations and responsibilities. Trying to juggle this concept of balance and harmony neither of which I achieved. Therefore it was time to let go.
When you fly too close to the Sun like Icarus you burn or in these modern times burn out.  A Fucked Up Life = A Fucked Up Blog.  I’m not Wonder Woman. The older I get the more I’m willing to admit defeat.  More people should pay attention to the expression Beating Your Head against a brick wall.  Well I have a bloody head.

Every so often you need to say, “Fuck it All.’ Like in Gone Girl I’m tired of being the Amazing Amy. Sometimes you must walk away from certain aspects of your life. My body does not handle stress well.  Finally around the time my laptop died I was having terrible headaches every day. Collapse. Nobody there to help me or pick me up.  As always I was and still am on my own.  My life had become a fucking circus of putting on acts of well-being.  Now I begin to tell the truth of a life filled with failures and flaws.  No perfection. No promises. No happy endings.  We deserve or think we deserve happiness, peace, joy and prosperity but life does not owe you anything. In this life you get many unexpected “gifts.”

If God/Universe gave out report cards my would be filled with F’s.  This is the truth I live with every day. Again I don’t sugarcoat anything. One can never go back. It’s like saying you’re still a Virgin after the hymen has been broken or a baby has passed through your womb. No returns.

I Am Not a Performance. I am Truth.

I don’t like to be typecast or put into a stereotype. That’s why I don’t take to so-called Life Coaches, Life Hacks, Therapists or sellers of happiness snake oils.  I don’t do Affirmations or Memes. They are totally lost on me. You don’t need to be a happy person to have Happy Times. I’ve had many Happy Times and will continue to do so. Happiness itself is situational. Just like anyway else who is brave enough to admit it I Love certain aspects of my being, my personality, my looks but their are other secret areas that come to plague me at night. That allow me no sleep.  Those are my demons and I welcome they. My demons are my closet companions. Reliable. Always there. Sometimes they even save me for where would they be without me. We are bound to each with an umbilical cord that stretches but never severed. To know me is to see a stubborn mass of contradictions. I’m a paradox wrapped inside an enigma.

Woman Deconstructed Renewed in Partial Forms

 

 

 

It is what it is. I follow my own mind and make my own decisions. I admit to being high strung, nervous, lacking patience and mercurial. Anxiety attacks are my normal.

Temperamental and sometimes ill tempered. Blunt. Straight. No Chaser. I’m not the Replacement Bitch. I AM THE BITCH. B.I.T.C.H. Being in Total Control of Herself.

Basically I wanted to trash this blog totally but I realized I needed the archives being that I lost many of my MS Word documents.  Also I needed a break from this writing blog to focus on my Photography Blog Roaming Urban Gypsy.  However after increased demand and support from my Subscribers I will once again serve up offerings of poetry, prose and opinion.  On My Own Terms.

Bits and pieces of my Life were in the Pawn Shop. Set up life a Museum dedicated to my past. Slowly once located I went back whenever possible to redeem and rescue pieces of my past so I could reassemble it into the future. Remade and Renewed through my own efforts or at times lack of efforts.

When one world dies another is born. And most don’t care unless it affects them directly.

I’m the Pegasus Unicorn in the Room.

It’s a Cold Broken Hallelujah

 

 

Black WoMoon Rising 2018!

 

New York State Paid Family Leave | The State of New York


https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-state-paid-family-leave

January 29th 2016 I attended the Paid Family leave Rally. Now Paid Family leave is a reality for New Yorkers.

Some of you may be wondering if I will be able to use the Paid Family Leave Law to care for Stephen. Sadly the answers is No.

Sadly the Federal FMLA Laws currently on the books exclude siblings. That’s right!  Siblings are not considered family under the Family Leave Laws. If I was my brother Stephen’s legal guardian then it might be approved. I cannot afford to hire a Guardianship Lawyer so that’s the end of that story.
 
Another factor is that new Laws normally need to be negotiated into future Union contracts.  The next contract for Union Museum Employees is the year 2020 long after my retirement so it makes no sense for me to put myself through the Human Resources purgatory.  For those of you Not familiar with American Human Resources departments within companies whether For Profit or Non Profit, H.R. is only there to protect the company not the employees. “Nuff Said!
However the good we do in this life is most often not for us for but future generations.