Heat wave

How the weather got to be such an interesting (boring) topic... or how many days can they say it's not going to change much...plus how the other states are doing it (the heatwave) and how others in your town are doing it (surviving the heat wave), and has anyone lost their sense of humor over this thing?  I liked the piece about the steak cooked in someone's car on the dashboard in 2-3 hours.  Aren't there other places/ways to experience the heat differently?  Like the moderating influence of a cool shower or bath, the delights of ice cream, or the appeal of a big fat, cold watermelon?  And how's that doing for your health?  Are you slowing down more?  Taking it easy?  Being gentle with yourself as you waft with the heatwaves moving outside?  Feel like a langorous, ponderous hippo yet?  Or  a huge, bloated elephant?  Are you attracted to the ponds the alligators hide in...and would do anything just to get in there with them?  It all looks so appealing....to enjoy the heat and take the day off...  Is your head off somewhere in the wild blue yonder, dreaming about God-knows-what, while you lay back limply in your easy chair?  Is trying to get your mind to focus about as hard as getting your kids to eat vegetables or cleaning out the refrigerator?  Do you feel like life has sped up 120% and you've slowed down that same amount?  Does watching the trees wave in the breeze make you dizzy?  Are you getting sleepy...sleepier....your eyelids are getting heavy...your eyes are closing and you feel so sleepy...you just want to drift off to sleep....more and more relaxed....just let go....

(see you in that first cold front in October...)

why I'm writing today and what it's about

I'm not sure yet what I'm going to write about, but have definitely decided to sell my mobile home (about the 13th time), but this time, it's it!

The main reason I think I'm going to write about it is because I seemed to have stalled out on writing about anything else.  Anything at all.  I no longer feel 'news-worthy,' whatever that means.  What it does mean is that every time I thought about writing on my blog, I would think that I didn't really have much to say and that everyone else seemed to have so much more and so many better ways to say it.  So why should I bother? 

I do have something to say, but it's often more complex than just spouting out a short easily-packaged blurb.  So I edit it, ignore the impulse, discount it, muffle it, criticize it, and end up saving my voice for the truly vexing times when I have to vent or I'll just explode. (!)  Meanwhile, life is passing me by and I  mean that the life that consists of consistent blog posts and hopefully increasing readership - that life is passing me by.

Which reminds me that my purpose in writing this blog is not to get fantastic numbers of readers to follow me.  No, that's not it.  My purpose is to be heard, to share my voice, to express myself (as trite as it sounds), and to discover what I've chosen to write about at any given time.  A form of exploration and fun even, for you and me.

I just do want people that do happen to wander by here unexpectedly, to have a good time when they read my post.  That's all.  They don't ever have to visit me again - that's okay.  Of course, I wonder what they thought of it....but I'm content if I can churn out half-way reasonable prose that has the potential to entertain, educate, and enlighten.  Or even just grab your attention, though I mine for depth and seek to go deep.  So I guess I can say that I don't want to grab your attention.  Because when I try to be witty to grab attention, I end up nine times out of ten thinking twice about what I'm going to say and then deciding not to say anything.  Too high a standard.  So let's just be real.  I think that'll work.  Because then if you drop by, and even leave a comment, I'll know it's for what I've written naturally, not what I wrote to try to be like everyone else (witty, cool, famous, etc.).  And even if it's just the dog who pays attention, I'll be out there in the ether somewhere.  Better than inside my strange mind, all cramped up with too many thoughts and no where to go.

"...everything in life is writable about..."

TEDxHouston - Brené Brown

Women make men and men make women

I know I haven't written in awhile.  I had things in my "real" life overtake me and my interest in writing noteworthy copy took a backseat..... but I am up again and on my way......

I ran across this quote and it spoke to me.  I hope you like it too.

Strong Men and Strong Women

“Men have been afraid of women and have therefore dominated them, unconsciously, for very much the same reasons I believe they have been afraid of their primary processes. Remember that the dynamic psychologists are apt to think that much of the relationship of men to women is determined by the fact that women will remind men of their own unconscious that is of their own femaleness, their own softness, their own tenderness, and so on.

And therefore, fighting women or trying to control them or to derogate them has been part of this effort to control those unconscious forces which are within each one of us...

Only as men become strong enough, self-confident enough and integrated enough can they tolerate and finally enjoy self-actualizing women, who are full human beings.

But no man fulfills himself without a woman, in principle.  Therefore,  strong men and strong women are the condition of each other, for neither can enlist without the other.  They are also the cause of each other, because  women grow men and men grow women.  And finally, of course, they are the  reward of each other.  If you are a good enough man, that’s the kind of woman you’ll get and that’s the kind of woman you’ll deserve."

A.H. Maslow

Emotional Blocks to Creativity

Thanks to:

Lynne Namka, for posting this quote in her newsletter.

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