Category: Going Mental
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Tattoo #4
I’ve been talking about adding another tattoo for a while and it seemed as if I was just going to talk about it rather than do it. I had some hesitations as the location is known to be one of the most painful places to put a tattoo, and another friend who has done quite…
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Pause, Reset
As I cannot breathe through my nose, thanks to allergies, it is even easier to hear me exhale loudly and fully release the dark energies that can easily enter my body and mind. I’m not a shy person, and I have no aversion to speaking my mind. However, what I have realized (again) is that…
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Feverishly Sprung
So, the last time I wrote was nearly a month ago; or rather about three weeks already…. My great intentions of writing more for myself have gotten sucked up into magazine work as we are building it up in different ways, work to pay for the magazine, and getting settled into the actual reason that…
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Silence is Golden?
So, I did it. I submitted an application for a ten-day silent meditation retreat in response to my need and near insanity from being stuck in a small cottage where the walls and doors are more like paper. My introverted self is suffering a bit from the constant sound of my husband’s voice as he…
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Midnight Musings
It’s the middle of the night. Despite going to bed at my usual time around 9 pm, and shortly falling asleep well before 10 to settle in for my evening slumber, I awoke briefly around 10:30 upon hearing my husband on the phone. It’s not uncommon these days for him to stay up a bit…
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Outlook is Everything!
My best laid intentions of writing regularly were thwarted slightly as chaos will always win over even the most orderly of situations. There’s no way to avoid a tornado, you just have to wait for it to pass then pick up the pieces left in its wake. Some might lament at the lack of fairness…
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Ups and Downs Check-in
It has been ages since I have written about my ‘ups and downs’ as I think that they have been much less extreme since the “new norm” involved being at home more than out. If there ever was a doubt that I am an introvert, I think that the past nine months have wiped away…
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He’s 50!
We had a number of different variation of how my “old man” would ring in the new decade at half a century years old. However, none of those came to fruition thanks to the changes in COVID-19 (shame it was 20, huh?). Even as it was, we were technically in violation of lockdown rules when…
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Halfway through January!
Well, well, well, where did the past two months go? In general, not that much has been happening due to lockdown, curfews, and quite a bit of working from home; when I say working…I mostly mean working on The Universal Asian. So, to briefly catch up, here is a brief outline of what we have…
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Hoping for the Best!
We are in the middle of the fourth week of lockdown 2.0 in France 🇫🇷. Tomorrow, there will be another update from the President (Macron), who is rumored to announce an extension of the period with some exceptions. Some have even suggested that the current state will be enforced until the new year. While our…
