As I have looked forward to writing the past few days, it didn’t actually occur to me to write about past love interests and relationships. However, this is where my mind wandered this morning. Not so much to the people, themselves, but to this idea….that they are not currently a part of my life forContinue reading “Where have all the exes gone?”
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If the sea brings me to it…
(The following was originally written in August 2024, just before a new person entered my life. Reading it now, just over a year later, I am struck by how soon the thing I was seeking here would be realized. It’s a reminder that what you think may become.) Returning from this year’s trip to Spain,Continue reading “If the sea brings me to it…”
I may never know…
My husband passed away over 14 years ago, yet it is the death of something else around three years ago that still has me in strange territory as I write this. Oddly enough, it isn’t some sort of co-dependent obsession, infatuation, unhealthy pattern, desire or anything of the like that’s brought me here. As farContinue reading “I may never know…”
This is why I’m afraid…
Just want to take a minute to thank everyone who has followed my posts and to let you all know that I’m going to be taking a break. I am unsure for how long. As some of you may be aware, I have struggled to let go these past months. I have attempted to turnContinue reading “This is why I’m afraid…”
Call me crazy if you want…
Back from a short trip to Arkansas and trying to decide my next step. More travel? Writing a short book? Going out of my mind for lack of physical intimacy? Perhaps I should apologize to anyone who thought this blog was going to be all “zen”….full of peace, harmony, meditation. Mostly, it’s about expansion….stepping outContinue reading “Call me crazy if you want…”
A whole other world…
When my husband passed away from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2010, I was not unfamiliar with loss and grief. Yet, for a period of time after his death, I found myself void of compassion for others experiencing their own loss, grief, and trauma. In fact, it was almost two years before I was ableContinue reading “A whole other world…”
Only love has value here…
For months now, I’ve been sitting on some thoughts about which path to take moving forward. I haven’t been stagnant, exactly. I’ve just been taking in “data” as needed in the understanding that it will eventually lead me to some sort of conclusion about the matter. Such is my way. I’m an observer, first…..of externalContinue reading “Only love has value here…”
Love, hope, and wrong turns…
The tightrope between hope and despair is one many of us have walked a time or two in the search for love….so I thought a few words on the subject might be due. If you’ve ever hoped for something in love one minute, but found yourself wanting to throw in the towel the next, thenContinue reading “Love, hope, and wrong turns…”
The 5 Deadly Fears of Loss (and what we gain by letting go)…
As I contemplated divorce more than a decade ago, I encountered a number of fears and uncertainties with the idea ending a 15 year-long marriage. Although I was pretty sure it’s what I wanted, I found that fear hides in the most unexpected places and in abundance. Furthermore, it’s not something one overcomes once, butContinue reading “The 5 Deadly Fears of Loss (and what we gain by letting go)…”
The Wall Cat…(a ‘sort of’ allegory)
During a date one night with a new romantic interest, the person I was seeing shared a story with me about a stray cat that once had gotten into a 10-inch wall space between his house’s original foundation and its addition. For the better part of a year, he never really saw the cat andContinue reading “The Wall Cat…(a ‘sort of’ allegory)”
Tales of torture and haunting intangibility…
For a long time, my best friends were dead people. Mysterious and intangible dead people. And while I am unsure of the exact origin, I suspect that my fascination began around the age of four with trips to the local cemetery where my grandmother and I would eat peanut butter sandwiches among the secluded tombs,Continue reading “Tales of torture and haunting intangibility…”
An invitation from a friend…
Despite the general message and reason for this blog, let me assure you that I am no expert at letting go. Quite contrarily to that and truth be told, I have spent the majority of my life trying to hold on. But loss does not discriminate. No matter how emphatically we try to hold onContinue reading “An invitation from a friend…”
Jeanie Unbottled 