Category: What’s Going on in my Life
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Crash Out
At that exact same time, the song from Andor Season 2, Niamos! shuffled on and I mentioned half-seriously, “what a song to have a crash out to.” Kelli looked at me, noting the sincerity in that bit of sarcasm and I just burst into tears. I felt big, and big was the absolute last thing…
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The Heat Around the Corner
“When we ignore what we are feeling, we make ourselves incapable of understanding ‘why we are feeling’. It took that unexpected and uncontrollable overflow of emotion for me to be able to acknowledge the internal work that I had to do. At the root of that work lies the ability to temper expectations and accept…
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The Opposite
Doing “the opposite” isn’t about being who you think you want to be, its about knowing your place in the situation and ignoring the instinct to be a passive participant.
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Anxiety Spike
Combine those two and you get a concoction for an emotional tsunami, all of the water being suddenly sucked out from under you just to come crashing torrentially down on you moments later.
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Tempered Steel
Each of us have critical points, times in our life where the transition from one stage to another occurs. There are times when we are broken, picked apart, separated, and either added or subtracted to. Rarely can we choose when the temperature rises or what elements are added; like the iron in this metaphor we…
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Labels
“I was confronted with the actual substance of myself and particularly with the value I have that I’ve lost touch with in wider circles. I was confronted with the fact that I’m not an amorphous Ditto, I’m a freakin’ Blastoise.”
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Today of All Days
There’s never a good time for nuisances and costly hiccups. Our usual response to that situation is “on today of all days”.
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Let It Be
It is time to say goodbye to 2023. I’m sure there will be lots of these posts popping up on your timeline so I intend to keep this one brief. 2023 has been a rough year for me. It has been a year filled with turbulence, anxiety, and a lot of pain. I’ve more than…
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Reasonable Accommodations
I write this because I don’t know any better course of action to take. This type of behavior needs to be identified, it needs to be called out. It’s not okay.
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CTRL+ALT+DEL
I keep a notes file of quotes. These can be anything from a book I’m reading, a show I’m watching, or something I stumble across in the real world. There’s one from my Dad that I reflect back on often. “I don’t really write them for anyone, I write them for me.” It’s something that…
Collin Willis 