Nightowl Rehab

Nocturnal behaviors has always been since birth. Dusk to dawn is the perfect time in becoming to work on my daily rehabilitation. We don't know how STRONG we are until being strong is the only choice we have! This quote stated on one of my stroke awareness month t-shirts. Growing up in public housing and Section 8 graduate due to my late mom’s disability. She fought Multiple Sclerosis.

Placed in nursing place and hospice care at 45. Her spirit gave out 2 days after her Christmas birthday. My mom was the epitome of strong. A Capricorn sun, Sagittarius moon, Gemini rising disabled woman with progressive building brain lesions due to her illness continued to raised her 3 daughters until sickness took over his 1996. She passed in 2008, just a physical shell was left.

I have embraced my mom’s and my ancestors fighting spirits and this new nocturnal timing as choosing to take self discovery journey making with non-materialistic goals and advocating for my and my new community rights

The Barn Owl who shrieked and hissing. They doesn’t hoot like Strigiformes or rest of owl population.The Tytonidae family have unique characteristics especially if they are from the Old World. These owls could hoot, shriek, and whistle. So multiple facets and even folklore about these beautiful predators of night. Methodically hunting for food to survive. Providing a life for their family and couple or single much like our species.

On the crisp early fall Sunday under the Libra sun at 39 minutes after dawn and 14 minutes after sunrise, I was born.

Like Barn Owl, I am different than other humans not only because survival skills and technically having a total 5 permanent damage brain attacks and numerous Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs) for whole year prior to my strokes.

I had to embrace the spirt of ancestors as white un-oxygenated matter developed 4 times in my brain with 7 months both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation. Now I am relearning how to simple adulting function present and also trying to remember my “Old World” life.

The white matter presence is blocking my memories even with short term. Having a stroke is lifelong recovery. Adjusting to simple life skills are challenging especially when your new limitations included slower processing, comprehension time, poor executive planning functions due frontal lobe from traumatic brain injury.

According to the life saving neurologist Dr. Rishi Gupta, mostly affected is located in Temporal Lobe region which caused sporadic aphasia or speech-language impairments. I refer to this limitations as brain and mouth miscommunication. For instance like my brain can stop processing auditory and sentence formation skills…negligence of all learned information from Language Arts courses from one of the 11 southern seceded educational system, 3 colleges degrees from same state universities (Georgia State—Bachelors (2006) & Masters (2011), West Georgia—Educational Specialist (2015), even paralegal certificate (2007) from the first post secondary learning institution in my home state and located in my hometown, University of Georgia

Constant chronic nerve pain because a smaller lesion on Partial Lobe which cover physical motor function. Our brain in the main controller of your whole body including physical and mental (emotional, sensory, visual, motor skills...etc) . Like fighting Mortal Combat daily on PlayStation. “Choose your fighter”, the mental game asks to heal from traumas

Researching yourself is hard task to stay consistent with the follow through. What if you deviated so far from your life purpose by getting mixed up with tangible and “American Dream” mindset. In today’s society, perception is everything due the colonial competition.

Hardship is ingrained in our DNA. All traumas from slavery, sharecropping to service providers. As a true descendant of “Old World” Eastern Hemisphere stolen and former Metro Atlanta teacher, my maternal ancestors were physically beaten forced to work from sun up to sun down in the Washington-Wilkes fields to possibly city building of my new community Augusta-Richmond, the extremely conservative but still fighting the inevitable digital era city near Savannah River, the South Carolina adjacent boarder

My great grandmother Nannie Lou (Big Ma) worked for pre-gentrification but post-colonialism evangelical family as while living in poverty stricken and federally funded De jure segregated area, the infamous ghettoes or state public housing near the rural shotgun houses to predecessor of the plantation cabins.

My beginning is built many challenges including a whole lie or a missed perception for young 18 year old gentle giant was attracted to a woman that he knew was out of his league due life experiences. My birth certificate is still incorrect because my dad make himself 5 years older. My mom was years older, divorcée, and the mother of 2 when she met my dad in Washington in 1982.

Perception and caring so much for other and not self care was my downfall. At 32, I had 4 strokes in 9 days. The. National Institutes of Health Stroke (NIHSS) stroke scale provides a numerical value 1-42 to classified to the severity of a stroke (Minor 0-4, moderate—5-15, moderate/severe 16–20 and severe—21-42)

In 2015, my stroke order was two #3, #7, and #21 with a side 7 months of rehab including occupational, speech and physical therapy. Daily rehabilitation.

I termed the nightowl rehab in 2019 because my predatory instinct and skill is Do It Yourself (DIY). The marital house in Cobb County was a work of art that sold for 55k in profits. I did that even with my new limitations.

4 year later, I purchased a shotgun house…my fresh start fixer upper as single woman divorced from 11 years marriage. The cost of living was too expensive in Atlanta so I moved to another Georgia rural city. Augusta is known for golf and James Brown, The Godfather of Soul. As the state second capital and second oldest, there are multiple stories and condemned historical properties like the Weed School of Sand Hills

Want to trace my family lineage but unfortunately “We The People” Preamble never apply us because my ancestors were considered chattel property. Easily to find folklore like Caribbean based Barn owl Chickcharney stories then historical familiar background.

The Andros mythical owl gives a first impression choice. Like Maya Angelou famous statement, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”. She had “Old World” story telling spirit as poet and author.

Imagining her raspy voice but attention command but respecting elder tone describing The Bahamas folklore. A traveler meet the Tytonidae creature that need help. The traveler choosing without mockery or tangible gains to assist this owl-looking with red intense eyes that provides good and bad omens to your own humanity. By acting with just gratitude to service all kinds no matter the differences bring your future luck or Universal backed opportunity to achieve your true life purpose.

If US has the this forklore. The Chickcharney would give good luck towards those who respectfully accepting all as culture, gender, sexuality as long as they respect historically and mostly untold stories of Black American community.

Bad omens to current elected but ruled by greed and making profit legislature or “parliament” like Senator Mitch McConnell that still has 3/5 Compromise attitude. “African Americans” are different than other Americans stated on January 2022.

Is this 1787 or 2022? The unsuccessful Reconstruction era (1865-1877) led to Jim Crow nation wide especially housing which is historically accurate way to establish wealth.

The former Social Studies teacher in me referring the reality after the Jupiter Saturn Conjunction 2020. Seeing the Winter Star and Lunar eclipse in November 2021 affected my Universal thinking.

This former educator has enrolled in course of life as student again but no frames or certificates for this program because the study is lifelong like my stroke recovery.

The course’s objective is creating inquisitive learner and higher thinking….Mind-ifest Destiny. Rediscovering self and learning the true history America The Beautiful is flawed by creation. From sea to shining sea, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for or purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain never apply to people who built this nation.

As I’m relearning….Finally seeing through corruption and capitalism that US government is becoming oligarchy run by elected Aves group called “parliament”. These group of human-owls are the real oppressor affected the state and local municipalities. By cherry picking in US Constitution and Bible like their European ancestors since 1492 when genocide giver “sailed the ocean blue”

Going to end the free handed journal entry…today’s nightowl rehab (speech therapy). The Universe calling because learned about the owl themed challenges only 24 hours ago so please excuse in grammatical errors.

This prize money will help to achieve so much like repairing cavity filled broken teeth and rest with go toward my daily rehabilitation recovery to finish renovating this small part of American Descendant of Slavery history.

That is my life purpose now to saving and restoring the forgotten stories of 3/5 Compromise survivors.