These are related. And they have to do with ego preservation and survival. If someone else could do something so damaging to our bodies and minds that we become mentally and physically wounded then we are exceptionally fragile and vulnerable. One of the jobs of the ego is to obscure the...
@DharmaGirl your cottage garden sounds dreamy!
I relate strongly to the tragedy of seeing plants discarded. My own parents cut down multiple fruit trees at a house we moved into—and the reason? “You have to prune them.” 😳 First of all you *don’t* HAVE to prune them! Second… 😩
And when I...
This is the kind of night for rearranging furniture and picture frames while listening to loud-ish music because you watched a Dear Modern video while trying to settle down for bed.
@Muttly glad to hear the update! Sounds like overall things are going well? This part
Sounds really nice!
This is so great! I have struggled with that myself and wonder how I would deal with it if I ever allowed myself to be in an intimate relationship again. Good to see you making that...
A dear friend who dropped off baked goods and my daughter who went on a walk with me today and said it was the best day of her life today.
Am alone now in the night and I have that wistful feeling of missing them both. Which I have to realize I wouldn’t feel if I didn’t have them in my life...
Ok, so this is just a hobby for me, and I don’t have a library of sources 😅. One example is the mmmm sound. M in Hebrew is represented by the glyph “mem” meaning “water” and loosely represents spirit (this is Kabbalah stuff). In Ogham M is represented by the glyph “muinn” meaning “strongest...
Oh I hear you. And that’s generally true for English which is such a smorgasbord. But sometimes it *is* true, and that’s where the fun lies for me. And in a language like Gaelge, it’s generally a “tight” language, the loan words are more-or-less obvious. I haven’t delved into Irish etymology...