I found what I needed. I'll just be logging thoughts privately from here out, proper diary style. Don't go looking for the key.

Happy 2024, everyone.

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Excerpt from Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle
By ROB BREZSNY

At its best, astrology stimulates and nurtures our mythopoetic intelligence. It’s a psychological improvisation grounded in the language of the soul. Storytelling is its forte, the source of its energy. Those practitioners who understand its true value don’t use ( Read more... )

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Today, tomorrow, and forever.

"The real challenge of being alive is to savor the moment and give your love freely in spite of the clown show unfolding around you."

HEATHER HAVRILESKY

There are times when I'm more inclined to appreciate asymmetry. Days I see the beauty in incongruity. Today is one of those.

When I was 12, I came very close to going through the windshield of my dad's Bronco. It was the day we moved into our new house (the house my parents still live in), and dad and I were coming back from the video rental store. My parents weren't the kind of people who made us wear seatbelts, because it was the 90s and we all lived like we were ( Read more... )

When I can’t talk to anyone
I like to sit in front of water.
If I have a minute to feel good
I take that minute. I have a cigarette.
I walk into the museum of past lives
and rearrange all the chairs.
This poem is meant to be read
at the bar on a Tuesday
when you’re dehydrated
and not feeling so great.
I want to know you
like a dog touches the wind
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Human brains haven't kept track with technological advancement and evolved fast enough to process all the bad news and negativity constantly available now. And I think everyone is finally starting to notice.