Last week I had a migraine with nausea for two days because the migraine was manifesting the sickening sweet scent of formaldehyde like in composite wood. And tonight I smell sickening sweet blueberry muffins. Countdown until the nausea and pain.

What is going on?

Here’s looking at you, kid!

You should never fight
With a lover for your life
You deserve the sun
Just as much as anyone

Hurray for the Riff Raff

#CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQKhiLwKufU

I wish, I wish you could climb in my heart
Down where the real feelings are
You'd hear a real work of art
So please, come over here next to me
Lie in my arms silently
I'll show the things I can't sing

John Paul White

#CoSoMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8MVnVEerFw

I raised my voice in anger today.
It was a little shocking and scary,

you see --
a lady never does so.

She keeps her anger locked away while she struggles for composure.

Strangles as the words are captured at the back of her throat.

A smooth brow.
An unlined veneer.
The serene visage never giving her away.

Looking years younger due to decades of masking her impulses

to yell
to scream
to rail at the injustice of it all.

That to live the perfect life..
She must remain a fake.

#MyWords

For when it is one of those days.. like today. Remember please, you are enough.

Wild Geese
By Mary Oliver

#Quotes

What is your purpose in life? If yes, how did you discover your purpose and what is it? If no, how are you trying to discover it?

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As always, this is a judgement free zone. You may ask questions of others' responses for clarification, but no condescension please. We are all as varied as the stars in the sky, yet we all shine.

#Ungame

Martin Luther King, Jr. painting by Derek Russell.

Acrylic & oil on board
12 x 16 in
Commissioned and Collected by GSV Capital

http://www.derekrussellartist.com/

I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.

~ Derek Mahon, Excerpt from Everything is Going to be All Right

~✿ Bush Flowers by Raelene Stevens ✿~

#Quotes
#Poetry
#Art

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

#Quotes

Let this be the year, please.

#politics
#trump

I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and singing with rapture.
There is not a thing I do not love.
There is not a person I have not forgiven.
I feel a universe of love.
I feel a universe of light.
Tonight, I am with old friends
and we are returning home.
The moon is our witness.
~ Kamand Kojouri

~✿~ The Belle of the Ball by Mark Littlejohn ~✿~

#Quotes

Another year is upon us and with it all the hope for positive change and new beginnings. To which I sincerely wish for each of you:
• Wisdom to make the best choices for YOU
• Determination to make YOUR dreams more accessible
• Support from those around YOU
• Belief that YOU are deserving of good things
• Delight in your heart as YOU experience success
• Fortitude to face obstacles that unexpectedly pop up in YOUR life
• Grace to share YOUR life lessons.

Happiest of New Years!
repeat of 2022

No lie..

Excuse me while I go get some Bengay to put on my aching joints..

Let a body be tired.. Amen.

Adulthood is so overrated.

I said what I said.

Ninety-nine, below zero
Would seem like fever now
You know me… no hero
Don’t even ask me how
I’m down in the deep deep freeze
What was I thinking of…
In the painful breeze
By the frozen trees
With a heart disease called love

Miracle Legion (cover of John Cooper Clarke)

#CoSoMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34COzWzKcY

Heh heh heh..

#Muscle Tov
#CoSoEyeCandy (M)