Feeling sorry for inanimate objects – a re-blog

Published April 13, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Delightful. Boy can I resonate to this! They may be a sort of transtional object, but long live transitional objects! I’m re-blogging!

Lucky Otters Haven

abandoned_doll

Credit: Danielle Hamer Photography/Abandoned Objects

I saw someone’s tweet today that caught my attention because I could relate to its sentiment.

True story @ work tonite I completely crushed a paper cup out of stress at work & almost threw it away but felt bad for the cup so I used it.

And a few minutes later:

This falls under the same category as me feeling sad after accidentally stepping on an ant, but worse.

I thought I was the only one who ever had these absurd feelings of remorse or pity for inanimate objects, but apparently I’m not.

I remember a couple of years ago, when I was painting my kitchen Kelly green, I accidentally flung some of the paint from my brush all over a small throw pillow that had somehow wound up on the kitchen floor and I’d neglected to pick up and bring to safety. (Don’t…

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BLATHERINGS

Published April 13, 2017 by Nan Mykel

WHAT IS WORTHY OF A POEM?

Life? Death? Love, sorrow or joy?

Evolution?

Elocution?

Execution?

Persecution?

The brain?

Summer rain?

Gone insane?

Window pane?

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I saw a vulture picking at a live groundhog today (actually on the lawn in front of the hospital), (JUST LIKE TIME PICKS AT ME)

The navel orange looked good , but didn’t have much juice, I HAVE A NAVEL BUT DON’T LOOK GOOD AND DON’T HAVE MUCH JUICE EITHER.

My feet hurt tonight, poor things. OH! I FORGOT! THEY’RE ATTACHED TO ME!

My runny nose won the race.

Mack and Jack Work for Nan — a mini-script

Published April 13, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Mack and Jack are twins who were separated at birth and never knew they had a twin, or even that they were adopted until they see one another on the street in Athens, Ohio, and do a double-take (pun intended). After seeing each other and talking, they are learning a bit more.

Jack: Boy, Sells Park is one cool place!

Mack: Sure is.

Jack: Anything interesting in the news today?

Mack: Huh! I’ll say! For all their talk about patriotism, more than 1500 of the “one-percenters” renounced their U.S. citizenship last year so they didn’t have to pay taxes!

Jack: You sound like a Democrat!

Mack: Well sure…aren’t you?

Jack: Never!

Mack: WHAT! A REPUBLICAN?!

Jack: You really are a Democrat?

Mack: To think that my one and only twin is a Republican!

Jack: Duh, if you had more than one you wouldn’t be a twin.

Mack: I thought twins were supposed to be more alike than…well, completely different! A one-percenter! I can’t get over it! And here I thought you and Velma were broke!

Jack: We are! You can be a poor Republican. They’ll take whatever they can get.

Mack: How and why is what I want to know! I’m a Union man, Jack!

Jack: Your adoptive father is a Democrat?

Mack: Of course he is.

Jack: Mine was a Republican.

Mack: Oh…

Jack: I wonder what our natural mother was…is?

Mack: I heard 51 percent of white women voted for Trump.

Jack: And I heard the Republicans want to make it a crime for a doctor to tell his pregnant patient if her baby is abnormal…

Mack: In these days of that debilitating mosquito!

Jack: Hopefully we’ll know how Mom voted on Saturday, when this show continues at the Farmers Market and we can meet our natural mother!

A CAUTIONARY TALE : Twelve Years with Sex Offenders

Published April 13, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Treating sex offenders for twelve years during their incarceration was an eye-opening experience for me, and I’m a psychologist.

Society’s anxiety about sexual abuse of children has prevented the free flow of information about vital issues for everyone–parent, child, victim, offender, family, and friends.

how family members foster re-offending

how incest is defined

how sexual abuse of children is defined

why incest offenders “do it.”

why victims don’t tell

whether/how to foster a better relationship between perpetrator and victim

how to counter thinking errors

what’s age-appropriate curiosity versus sexual abuse?

how parents should respond to their child’s flirtatiousness

how responsible are some children for their abuse

factors in degree of damage incurred

the role of guilt

what about one’s own sexual abuse?

will victims offend?

Wheelchair drives re-blog.

Published April 12, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Thought I’d share this lovely blog from a lovely woman.

April 11 is My Little Sister’s Bithday

Published April 11, 2017 by Nan Mykel

(Nikki, short for Nickname, named by Nan)

Allison Buckman Bassett Manning

My little Sister April 11, 1942 – April, 1983

Gone but never forgotten…

Should You Ever Need Help…

Published April 10, 2017 by Nan Mykel

with a skewed computer monitor, I think what I did was punch Control and ALT and an arrow key.

HELP! NO FOOLING!

Published April 8, 2017 by Nan Mykel

No stranger has been in my condo today but I find my screen on a horizontal, not vertical plain. I recall long ago having posted a recipe for correcting an upside down screen but it kind of presupposed that a mischief maker had done the trick. If you know how I can get upright again please tell me

PSYCHIC READING 1972

Published April 8, 2017 by Nan Mykel

My aura is muddy with fear

the psychic said, three years ago,

as I sat hesitant before him

searching out dim forces of my destiny.

A two-fold karmic mission

lies in wait for me, he said.

mine to scale the heights of consciousness

and mine to loosen ancient passive bonds.

Through action shall I free the captive

soul of eons whose receptive mold has

fashioned the aura which I wear.

Passive becoming active, opening up

my third eye and our third world

in a consciousness both higher and raised.

Today is Monday, June 30, 1975 AD.

Three years hence where shall I be?

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(Today is Saturday, April 8, 2017, I be 81, living in Appalachia alone, preparing the landing strip for death, with only two eyes and Trump for my president. Today at lunch my friend Cathy told me that 51% of white women voted for Trump.)