Semi-Daily Scribbles

You Are Knot Trying Hard Enough

You're better off finding a trusted civilian who'll listen to your (what usually are very amusing) existential crises, and maintaining a lifestyle where your body and mind are allowed to perform at peak proficiency. Sorry, I hope that didn't come out sounding all preachily privileged because, you know: You are perfect just the way you are! And get yourself a hobby. Animals are good to have around, too. But please don't pay hard-earned cash money to be told to eat a salad once in a while. Mom told you to eat your vegetables, probably many times, and for free even.

Underneath the Niceness

Time is fluid, and what I said yesterday is a betrayal sneaking up on you in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... The downfall has happened. It goes back to my desire for seeing you leave before the month is out. I have enough strength for the both of us, and therein lies our demise. I am "conscious" of my "knowing" you are lost without your lies. [Watch out when you run into writers. You'll be reading your story soon, and it's one you didn't write.] The Meaning of Life is just to show up. "Showing up is half the battle." People say that, don't they? You told me once, "I don't." You serve others only to short-change yourself. Don't be a martyr to a dream that never was. 15 years and One Hundred Ghosts incubated all your false hopes. Corruption of the body; fertilizer for the mind. [You once said to me: "Hope you get back on your feet." Hope you stay on yours.] Memories are missed opportunities waiting to happen. [The only long-term relationship we ever truly have is with ourselves.]

Sound the Warning

What should Alejandra's reaction be when she is told by a sleepy colleague to "chill and just roll with it?" Smile and say: "Yeah, you're right." Know that Sonny means well as he munches those pretty flowers.

psssst ... The Universe wants you to know the spell you've been under is about to lift. Oh happy day! Just be mindful from here on out of what plants you find in your Redi-Mix bag of salad greens.

She Sell

Madame Malcontent knows it's not wrong to charge cash money for a reading. She draws the line, however, at asking for $$$ in order to teach someone what only intuition and a creative bent can give a gal. As Madame Malcontent likes to say: Some got it. Some don't.

Peering through the spyglass
watching the other half
stare back in a trance
Trust in Happenstance

The Challenge

I haven't heard anything official. He's just not here.
Yeah, umm ... there's a funny story about that.
Who has the shekels to be zaftig?
I can only capture your image during a downpour.
What does it mean when people are upside down and objects look just right?
More a love bite than a parting shot:
The time I've spent with you has shown me I've got one well-developed Snob Muscle.
from sprout to blossom to kindling
we all have our day of beauty
Loved by all
understood by you alone
I am the result of all my life choices
stars are meant to heal

Your secret's safe with me.

Even though I drew it
I didn't need to cross it
Everything I make
I undo
You've registered your discomfort
I've rendered myself a trigger
All in the quest to learn
What is true

TRUTH SERUM; Or, Today's Top Headlines

From your boozy lips to my woozy ear: "12 or no, I can't stay away from bars."
Stagger
Stagger
Sleepy is how I greet the day.
No more blindfolds and September will forever be your month.

You should have brought the apostrophe along as your date and left the bangs at home.
...and stop cutting your hair, dammit!

The decision was made the day Gayle and I were in the loo desirous to wash our hands. The sinks were backed up with shit.
WOMEN OF INDUSTRY: TAKE BACK THE PLUMBING! DON'T GIVE MEN CONTROL OVER YOUR U-BENDS!

You are surrounded by sick people and their disease has rubbed off on you. What do you do?
Don't believe The Believers when they try to convince you there are no lessons to be learned from feeling your way through the gloom.

Don't know what it means to you and me
but let's put our bodies through the wringer
For Free

That way the pain will be our remedy
for plans gone wrong thanks to
The Patriarchy

Mister Mythical

Yea, for the unreasonable season be upon us, and emotions are squishy and raw. Deal with the feels if you must. But for the sake of propriety (sobriety, piety) please don't go losing your everloving mind during this Neptunian grope fest.

Valium Times

People are here because they don't have to be here very often. But isn't showing up Step #1 in: How To Build An Effective Team? Why are you here? Is it because the two of us have very different ideas on how to define "Fun!?" Would we even know what to say to each other if we were to meet outside of these waterstained walls?

Those closest to your heart should possess a healthy dose of forgetfulness.

Waiting on a Connection

In your solitude, create art. Virginia would want you to. There is no such thing as loneliness. Rub away the charcoal line until the jawbone is softened. With eraser, swipe at age spots that give up the great lie. Smooth as a baby's argument; clear as the conscience of a nun. Creases are a way to negate the answers only Time can tell.

Your room is the world we can only just glimpse that shines beyond the horizon.