healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Bankruptcy is Inevitable
These last few months have been brutal. I go weeks without checking my email, I've considered changing my phone number, the onslaught of people wanting money is never-ending. Don't get me wrong, I want to pay back everything that I've ever borrowed, and I have made a lot of progress since my original business went under. But, the pandemic was the final nail in the coffin. Now, it's a struggle just to keep our bills current.
By Alistair Kingsley5 years ago in Motivation
Breathe. Believe. Achieve.
I was clearly depressed. I didn’t want to get out of my bed in the morning, and I had stopped doing activities I used to do, like playing my guitar, or going for walks. My friend Mary Pat was one of the ones who noticed. And fortunately, for me, she was one of the ones who would do something about it.
By Michael X Christopher5 years ago in Motivation
crocodile teeth
imagine yourself standing on the second floor of a kitchen bar on your laptop, being as neutral as possible, and a rumble starts. amid a hurricane passing through three days prior to your new move in at California's downtown creek view estates. Big time gives you a shot at the office with a great offer undeniable. it freezes time to find that you are a creator of a "gg" in your hometown of the south. the good girl is what I mean. your mind is so set on the living in the feeling of a love that is lustful on its on without sin. smiles were the name branded to you by the god himself. erotic seeing him now that yore blooming enough from pollination to penetrate. the mother loving and repelling due to the allergies.
By Lake Hall5 years ago in Motivation
Sometimes
Sometimes it is hard to hear that you are at fault for something when you think you were right, but we are not always right in life, and sometimes we need to hear that from someone else. I hear daily that I need to rest and stop working all day every day, I need to set a schedule to get my life on the right path, but I never believed it until I heard it from so many different people each day. Life is not always about being right, it is about doing the right thing. It is about loving and forgiving people. It is about hearing people out when you are mad at them and giving them, another shot at being in your life. Sometimes, we need to forgive people when they hurt us, we need to forgive people when they do wrong, and it is not for them, it is for us, we must forgive them so we can move on with our lives, holding a grudge will make you feel bad, until you forgive the person who hurt you.
By Audrey DeLong5 years ago in Motivation
To crochet or not to crochet
My favorite past time, besides walking trails and riding my bike has been to crochet. I love crocheting all kinds of things; blankets, hats house shoes. I love seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I give them away. My favorite part of making something was is when I’m finished and I tie up the last two pieces of yarn and cut the excess off with my handy dandy red scissors.
By Ellie Houck5 years ago in Motivation
Walks in the Park
Sometimes we can only regard a place for the ways we have experienced it. Literature has depicted the connection of observing nature to walking and prolific thought since times millennium. Whitman was always good for this, and I guess that's why I love to read his works. There is something that happens as one hears the crunch of leaves under foot as one foot is put before the other. Although an adult, you are an infant walking while ideas totter and jostle in the mind. Senses become enlivened in a way I can only attempt to describe as a repetitious experience that seems familiar and foreign in each encounter. I believe the mind becomes fit as transcendentalism comes to fruition--then, enlightenment.
By Joyce Plair-Jordan5 years ago in Motivation
Visual Audio Abstraction
Visual Audio Abstraction By: Nancy R. Rouse Born in 1977, the offspring of a Vietnam War veteran who had been repeatedly poisoned over the course of his service by Agent Orange. Though his country finally came to their senses decades later acknowledging the first victims were affected by the terrible herbicides, little was known as to how far the reach of altered environmental genetics. I am the product of such an unwilling thing. Raised as if everything was normal, many times growing up in school getting reprimanded for not grasping the concept of the verbal instructions. When I was caught staring out the windows of my class room instead of paying attention to the abstraction that fell upon me, I was made to stay in detention for recess to write over and over again, "I will not stare out the window during class." Unaware myself that the world around me had a very different perception than what I had been cursed with. I was born with a severe hearing impairment due to my father"s fate of being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Only perceiving sixty percent of sound in my left ear. My right ear, completely deaf. You see, staring out the window made more sense as a child, the way the wind blew leaves across the sidewalk or how the occasional bird danced in the wind. That was my comfort the music I could see in the realm of static and Visual Audio Abstraction as the background was swept away by inaudible sounds the subject was pushed to the front dancing in an array of abstract composition and colour. Early on I began to vaguely communicate through my artwork unable to truly connect with those around me. Helen Keller once said, "The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus-- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man."
By Rev. Nancy R. Rouse5 years ago in Motivation
