OOOOOh! You sure got a lot of stuff out! I feel like collaging psychologically cleans the veins (but not of blood), This kind of expression goes along so nicely with journaling.
A mixed bag
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Gross
Published May 6, 2017 by Nan MykelThis should be a shot in the arm for the readers of my “Write Yourself into Being”, an encouraging page for journalings.
Did I write that?
Writing is terrifying. When I tip-toed into blogging just over a year ago I hadn’t found my voice yet. Words came out like rush hour into an emotional traffic jam. Being introverted doesn’t help. I’m terrible at giving myself permission to be a real person who occasionally sucks at everything but writing seems to help which is why I keep doing it. If I were writing about gardening or what I had for lunch every day maybe it would be easier but instead I felt compelled to write about life, trauma, recovery and every awful memory from my childhood. What the hell was I thinking? Do you ever feel like that? Have you ever looked at what you’ve put out there and thought, gross. Why? Noooooooo! It’s a feeling like cutting your bangs too short on picture day in middle school. Dear younger me: die…
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Milestones in Recovery: A Future for Mei
Published May 6, 2017 by Nan MykelWhat a writer and human/angel!
THERE ARE EVEN OTHER KINDS OF CHILD ABUSE…
Published May 5, 2017 by Nan Mykel“Wildly alone” — so apt! Wish I could do something to help. Blogging and fighting for yourself, as you said, surely demonstrates survivor strength! I’m reblogging.
A Baby we worship
Published May 3, 2017 by Nan MykelHow little we know each other! I’m reblogging.
Nan
All child abuse is wrong, or not all of it?
Published May 3, 2017 by Nan MykelWow…
Ravitch on Kucinich and Charter Schools
Published April 29, 2017 by Nan MykelKucinich, who served 16 years in Congress, was Cleveland mayor in the late 1970s, and ran for president in 2004 and 2008, plans to hold town hall-style forums across the state in Centerville, Columbus, Parma, and Elyria Monday through Thursday. He kicked it off by talking to reporters at the Ohio statehouse.
“When state revenue for public schools decreases because of money which goes to private for-profit charters, public school officials must make up the difference by asking local property taxpayers for more money,” Kucinich said. “It represents a deliberate, destructive undermining of the public education of Ohio’s children. What is our educational philosophy today? Let for-profit corporations exploit the mass of children by controlling the state government?”
“With that last line, he was referring to state legislators “who have accepted millions of dollars in campaign contributions from charter-school operators, notably William Lager of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow and David Brennan of White Hat Management,” according to the Columbus Dispatch….
According to a report released in advance of DeVos’ visit, since the 2012-2013 school year, $3,744,988 in state funding originally meant for children attending Van Wert County’s local public schools “has instead gone to privately run brick-and-mortar and online charter schools.” In turn, said the report from Innovation Ohio, “local taxpayers in Van Wert…have had to subsidize these larger state payments to charter schools to the tune of $1.4 million—money that should have supplemented the larger state aid amount but is now being used to subsidize poorer performing, privately run charter schools.”
Excerpt from dianeravitch.com 4/29/07
a sister’s love – a reblog by Survivor Road
Published April 15, 2017 by Nan MykelStupendous. I can’t help wondering who damaged her. Thanks so much for sharing light on this little acknowledged area of child sexual abuse. I’m re-blogging.
In silence she moves
the air itself doesn’t betray her presence
there is nothing to announce her arrival
She walks slowly
bulbous eyes locked on the floor
where, in the center
her prize awaits
She approaches the ball slowly
like a cat stalking it’s lunch
so does she move
Her eyes burning with the hunger
of her crazed desires
She reaches the boy
strokes his hair
her defensive hard shell strangely soft
her touch deceitfully gentle
He tightens against her presence
but she murmurs
almost purrs
as her eight legs begin to pry at him
unfolding his frame
until he lies before her, unable to move
held fast to the floor
Her fangs drip with the venom of her lust
and he closes his eyes,
wishing himself gone
as she bends down and begins her feast
taking what she wishes
leaving him filled with shame
humiliation
fear
For a…
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What about North Korea?
Published April 14, 2017 by Nan MykelThanks for your time and skill to educate me. I’m re-blogging.
Buffalo Sister City 2017 Exchange Student at Korean War Memorial at Canalside
At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, I’m alarmed. For work and for curiosity, I’ve spent many years following Asia; politics, culture, history, I went so far as to teach myself Chinese so I could read their papers, I was put into the Korean language program at the Defense Language Institute.
I spent a short time, in Korea, reading breaking news in Chinese and Korean and telling my bosses what I thought it meant. I don’t claim to be a great brain on Geo-politics, but I’ve followed it and macro-economics for several decades. Given my background, unqualified as it is, I’m growing more dismayed daily.
Buffalo Sister City Korean Exchange Students with Buffalo State Program Director’s Kid
In a nutshell, our President is taking us into schoolyard fights with the world’s biggest bullies. Putin – Russia’s…
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Mack and Jack Work for Nan — a mini-script
Published April 13, 2017 by Nan MykelMack 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!
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