Holiday Stream of Consciousness

Published December 22, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Conspiracy theories used to be fun….I remember reading last week that an asteroid was going to come pretty close to us the next day. Was the flying saucer disappointed not to see fireworks?….You say Merry Christmas, I say Happy Holidays, ’tis the season to be jolly, hopeful, stoic, delusional, NOT DEPRESSED! Can’t let reality get a foot in the door….But can this post really substitute for real Christmas cards? Oh, the task of buying cards, matching envelopes, getting the right stamp, finding the stick-on return address and searching for the current address. plus painfully and grotesquely trying to print the address without messing up too many envelopes….and LEAVING HOME IN THIS WEATHER!….I know my followers on WordPress will accept this easy-way-out message, but there are so few followers and the world is so big! In a puddle at the very bottom of my heart is love for you all….even those who have dropped me from their Christmas card list for not reciprocating….being a democrat….being a unitarian….being senile–I’ll stop there for my sake. HANG IN THERE!

Evocative

Published December 20, 2017 by Nan Mykel

I attempt poetry, but I never have really gotten into photography. That doesn’t mean that I’m not moved–straight to the gut–by some graphic art (does that cover photography as well as the other kind of art?) –my memory– Some photographs, and what they can do with them, is utterly miraculous. It’s like a finger through the skin touching my heart. I received this one in the mail recently–don’t know the photographer–but I’d just like to share:

Flying Saucer

Published December 20, 2017 by Nan Mykel

At least someone heard our lament!

I HEARD SOMEONE CRYING – a haibun

Published December 18, 2017 by Nan Mykel

It woke me. Maybe in the upstairs apartment? A muscle in my arm twitched. I recall snuggling with my old red blind deaf cat named “Lucky.”

goldfish looking out

rain patters against the pane

bradford pear leaf falls

Performing Pain: Autism

Published December 16, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Amazing sharing. I’m reblogging.

Autism and Expectations

I am not good at communicating my pain. It’s my greatest weakness. I am terrible at asking for help, I am terrible at reaching out to you, and I am worst at this when I’m distracted by physical discomfort.

I have often been told what a “coper” I am. How well I cope with stressful situations, how well I cope with shock and pain. Not because I am coping, but because I communicate these things differently.

What is pain? How do you quantify it? How do you get across just how much or how little you are in?

I am autistic, which means that I have a social communication condition, which means that I do not naturally or intuitively understand or (perhaps more importantly) perform social communication.

Most of the time I can do it all. I have learnt your ways, I may not understand why THIS QUESTION needs THIS…

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Funeral for Net Neutrality

Published December 14, 2017 by Nan Mykel

IT’S OVER; DONE FOR. The FCC today did away with rules barring internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to online content. The FCC would also eliminate a rule barring providers from prioritizing their own content. According to CNN, during the vote the room had to be emptied due to a security alert. THE BIG GUYS WON AGAIN. (Now I’ll probably be the slowest on their list). LATE P.S.: I

read there’s going to be another vote?

I LEFT THIS OUT OF MY BOOK

Published December 13, 2017 by Nan Mykel

I couldn’t find the article for a proper citation so I didn’t put it in my book on incest. I’ve added it now to my page on Incest.

Even Before My time

Published December 12, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Marion, Georgia, and mother Cora. Fun exploring old records.

MAMPATTA SAYS: SCENT OF A WOMAN

Published December 11, 2017 by Nan Mykel

I discovereed “Scent of a Woman” last night and can’t see a way to re-blog it. I’d like to refer you to it, however. I enjoyed it. I don’t know the relation between Mampatta and Chingz123, however. It can be found at

Chingz123.wordpress.com

Mental Illness: The Survival Guide – a reblog

Published December 8, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Helpful sharing from Child of Cynicism

The One in Four

Whether you live alongside mental illness during day-to-day life, or assist someone who does: it can be an uphill battle. A fight that it feels as though it can never be won; relentless and soul destroying.

If I didn’t understand, or didn’t suffer from mental illness personally, perhaps I would too be telling you to “snap out of it”, or that “you’re being ungrateful for the good that you’ve been blessed with”. But the truth is, I do live alongside psychiatric disorders, and have done for most of my life. Within that relatively short span, I have learnt one of the simplest, yet almost universally unaccepted, facts of life: you feel what you feel, and sometimes, nearly all the time, that’s okay. It is not disrespectful to the less fortunate to be unhappy. It is what it is, and there’s no blame in that.

However, maintaining a sustainable-perhaps even enjoyable-level…

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