Neurodivergent Well-being

I didn’t blog every day in August, so maybe I’ll try the last month of 2022. Greetings. I’m alive. Sort of. In some ways this year has been the best and the worst. I’ve done so much that I’ve wanted to do but have had some hard realizations … including that the world is not [...]

Seascape Saturday?

It has been a while. I was doing pretty well, or so I thought, up until just about this past week or so in the semester. So, at least I made it farther than I normally do until the burnout hits. A fair amount of my autistic friends have mentioned that it could be autistic [...]

Autism and Self Diagnosis

A number of my autistic friends have given me the feedback that they believe I am autistic too. It has been something that has been on my mind for a while and would explain a lot of childhood things for me. Admittedly I felt like the autistic community, along with people in general (NTs… how [...]

Complex Trauma

Being sick on and off this spring/summer has forced me to look at the ways in which trauma and stress manifest in my body. I've been working through a lot and my body has been forcing me to slow down. I hope I can carry that with me through the semester. In some ways, I [...]

Oscar Wilde said: ‘Each man kills the thing he loves.’ And it’s true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. I’m reading The Alchemist again. Every time I do I get something else from it, relevant to what I’m going through at the time. I [...]

Beginning Over Again

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. The Great Gatsby What an interesting feeling: beginning over again. With some of my recent health issues I did [...]

A Memory

A memory popped up on my facebook today from 2016. I took a selfie in a bathroom mirror at a university after presenting at a conference. I drove from Pittsburgh to southern Illinois to present on my thesis by myself. It's been interesting reflecting on just how close I was to dropping out of undergrad [...]

The myth about managing time

So I'm reading Make Time for Your Life by Cheryl Richardson, which was recommended to me by a very good friend of mine who also happens to be a fellow writer and nature lover. I've found this book immensely helpful so far other than some of the misguided comments Cheryl makes about therapists (she's a [...]

Rebirth

Descent into the dark A clear death Fast freedom Wisdom comes to those who Wait for rebirth Be still Shed the skin thrust upon you

Quote of the Day

For all mourning may be transformed into joy if you have endurance enough to make the journey. If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie This books is resonating with me so much. I’ll have to try to articulate that in a future post. But I have found this quote to be true for me. I’ve [...]