@NiveusLepus

Yay!!! Congratulations! I hope you feel rightfully excited now. 🤗 Soon soon soon!

@cmskiera

The sales barker ran a booming game of bingo all throughout my meeting. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I came back from my first appointment to find a Christmas market is on in my apartment complex this afternoon.

Music and the occasional sales barker blasting.

🤦🏻‍♂️ This meeting at 1 is so doomed.

I have excellent agendas that work 90% of the time, but today every possible factor is working against me. I put up what meagre barriers I have for the laptop, and... we shall see how that works!

🙃 Waiting on a lady who keeps to Colombian time. We had an appointment for 10:30 and we messaged an hour in advance to confirm.

At 10:35 I got a nooo amor ya sali (no love, "just" leaving) and she's been "just" leaving for the last 15.

I laugh because this is typical. I almost get a heart attack now when someone is on time.

(But I have to be back for my meeting at 1pm, so tough ta-tas if I can't help her with a task we had scheduled in time!)

Today I have a meeting in which at least two members are going to try to run us well over time and off-agenda, AND another is going to be learning what we do from a quiet observer role.

This is going to be an excellent test of my managerial chops, to make sure not a second is wasted and all is elucidated well. :) I look forward to it!

:) I got out to my park today.

Didn't run! Had messages to send.

But, baby steps.

(Tomorrow I shall run. Then back to weight training this week. 🤞🏻💪🏻)

@AskTheDevil

Frozen egg scrambles and banana nut muffins? Both are easy to prep in muffin tins and pop into freezer bags, to pull out and reheat as needed.

@BipolarArtist

You are indeed, Damien.

To still be *here* is enough. ❤️

@stephen_a_allen

That's quite a range!

I'm looking forward to some pleasure-reading, too. I have one more book review to finish first - then an SF book I started, then put aside.

After that, I want to find some small, unexpected beauty of an essay collection or short story collection (or return to that Lowell biography, Setting the River on Fire!) in which to lose myself.

I hope that haibun memoir stirs up moments of beauty for you, when you reach for it.

@th3j35t3r

I had to look it up. It's more of an inception-penis - two wieners within a wiener!

(And apparently, the stuff of urinary-infection nightmares, alas.)

@stephen_a_allen

I don't know what it is about the haibun, but I've been drawn to the form myself as of late.

Maybe it's the way the prose component captures a state of chaos, which the poetic turn distills, that makes it such an excellent medium for the moment?

(I too have been writing on grief in the form--world-grief, mainly, but still.)

How's your reading?

BC Canucks, are you doing okay, loves?

Are you checking in with folks?

Do you have everything you need for the next while?

Has the local government issued a canoe per household yet, or are you all just carving and resin-treating your own tonight?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/environment-canada-rain-fall-warning-south-coast-1.7355933

@stephen_a_allen

There is something very fine and difficult to put to words about the experience of returning to classical music at different points in one's life. I'm glad you have a soundtrack for reminiscing.

When you say "writing lately", do you mean with the ghazal project, or have you been moved to return to other forms and themes?

@Valkyrie_D

You're one of my favourite radio channels. ❤️ Thanks for these modern-classics-for-a-reason.

@LiseL

Ekphrastic Poem #17

The forest and the lake
want so much to understand
how the other changes
with the seasons. But where
their changes differ--
water into ice, breathing limb
to sleeping bough--
there is only this slight
shimmer, a reflection,
with which one might whisper
to the other: "O love, I cannot
go where you are going,
but I too can bear awhile
the awful splendour
of this, your funerary crown."

#Poetry

@tyghebright

As does seeing your name pop up!

Your presence is such a gift in the world.

@cjtownsend

This is 100% true to my experience. I didn't think I'd live to see 30, because the bipolar lows were so painful I felt that suicide was going to happen eventually, just to put an end to the chronic agony.

Every time I survived a low, I opened into an exhilarating high, grateful to be alive.

And after I hit 30? Hard times and good times alike, I have been grateful for every day. I will never be anxious about aging. Every minute of "overtime" these last eight years has been a gift.

Thanks for being with me in my low, all you beautiful ladles and jellyspoons.

My bipolar downcycles used to be utter agony, so I'm super glad they don't involve the same constriction of breathing & constant chest pain they used to when I was younger. But they still involve days of loathing any reminder of my existence in the world (for all the harm I think I'm causing by drawing breath) and some shutting-down-shop behaviours.

🫂💛 I just hope you all show yourselves the same grace you showed me.