None of us want to remember March 13, 2020… but we do.
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Tag: personal
Singing the quiet Christmas song out loud
It is that time of year again 🙂 .. the holiday parties, the work lunches, the happy hours, the shopping that feels half-present and half-numb. We scroll Amazon, clicking nonsense into carts for people who don’t need it. We forget where the car is parked. We forget what we’re even doing in the middle of a store. We’re overwhelmed, distracted and oddly disconnected.
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The Fire-Breathing Bird Dream.. so vivid I had to write about it
I had a dream about a fire breathing bird that eventually became my friend. It was so vivid I had to write about it..
Maybe a dream like this tells us that the things that scare us are not here to destroy us.. they just don’t want to be forgotten.
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Fighting the cold November Brain
Sometimes it feels with grief and mourning we are constantly in a Pavlov’s dog scenario.. we respond to external stimuli and don’t stop to do a reality check that the past is not repeating–unless we rewind it and replay it for our own brains
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The not so amazing Coal Speaker summer vacation
We were gone for a bit. But not far. Just gone long enough to be partially forgotten…
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The Gray Fade: On Fast Food, Isolation, and the Disappearing Color of Connection
Everything’s gray. Monotone. Lifeless. The buildings look more like bank branches or prisons than places to eat or hang out. Actually banks look more fun.
It doesn’t stop there. We stopped being fun, too.