love lavender
I dreamt I was in a rehab, no particular type. I sat in a chair with a binder full of notes, going through what to keep and toss. Continue reading “Behaving like an adult” »
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Wendy woke up dreaming
August 29th, 2017
Wendy Wall wrote and sang I Woke Up Dreaming, describing dream connections to waking life. Her song lyrics melody respect dreams as another aspect of our waking reality. Continue reading “Wendy woke up dreaming” »
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Recipe to raise negativity
August 22nd, 2017
we can artificially change negative to positive
Regardless of why self-esteem matters, millions of us suffer from feeling like dirt and feeling like we don’t count. It seems as if we learn to perpetuate negativity. Emmett Fox was a New Thought spiritual leader of the last century who started a church in New York City called Divine Science during the depression and he came up with a recipe to reduce negativity. Continue reading “Recipe to raise negativity” »
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Is it going?
August 15th, 2017
we are stardust
“How are you today?”
Easy to ask, but hard to answer. It depends upon who’s asking, and how far we want to go with someone else. I’ve lived with extreme depression on a personal level and with my relatives. Self-medicating is one way to ease the pain. It’s not a great solution, but research shows most people turn to self-medicating first. Continue reading “Is it going?” »
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natural sight
August 8th, 2017
the purple hour
Light and dark are associated with good and evil, happy and sad, joy and despair, purity and pollution. Clear day, dark and stormy night have billions of tints and shades along the spectrum. Continue reading “natural sight” »
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working a dream
August 1st, 2017
many elder Asians walked around
Dream of meeting Tommy with a group of Asian elders on a street after fifty years and he scolds me for not being careful
Ever since I read “Directing Your Destiny: How to Become the Writer, Producer, and Director of Your Dreams” by Jennifer Grace, I’ve taken her suggestion and I title my dreams. Including the main action of the dream in the title helps categorize them, allowing for easy retrieval when we look for dream patterns. Continue reading “working a dream” »
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taking a chance on letting people know me
July 25th, 2017
everybody looked like Hitler in WWI
Personal boundaries seem to be rooted in perception. I see things from my point of view, which seems true and final. Like everybody else, I’m limited and get caught up thinking I know best about what’s going on. I tend to forget there are infinite ways to see the world, and nobody knows everything.
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inner circle
July 18th, 2017
Whoops, I let you see the real me
“Good fences make good neighbors,” according to Robert Frost in his poem Mending Wall.
“There where it is we do not need the wall:
…He is all pine and I am apple orchard.” Continue reading “inner circle” »
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who judges perspectives?
July 11th, 2017
creativity is not editing
After my junior year of college, I left Southern Oregon College, now Southern Oregon University, and transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene for a larger college experience . Continue reading “who judges perspectives?” »
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artist or no?
July 4th, 2017
I’m here and want to live
“Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there,” said novelist Thomas Berger last century. I haven’t invented anything new, but have spent my life combining what others have created to form my own style. Continue reading “artist or no?” »
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