Winter Solstice
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Happy Birthday, Kiddo! We Made It!
2024, 57-years-old, adult-children-of-alcoholics, bipolar disorder, birthday, buddy-christ, Catholic, childhood, december, family, gift-to-myself, happy-birthday, i-love-you, indoctrination, its-my-birthday-month, jesus, kiddo, life, love, mental health, self-love, success, this-year, trauma, unquiet-mind, Winter SolsticeHappy birthday to the past and painfully young me. If eyes are the window to the soul, those eyes would reveal the storm raging in our most unquiet mind. Feeling unseen, irrelevant and invisible while at the same time trapped and claustrophobic. No power, no rage, no fists striking out blindly in anger; only the…
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Waiting for Bliss – Practicing the Lost Art of Delayed Gratification
1983, 2023, Amos Bronson Alcott, bells of bliss, bliss, cast out, checking in, chemistry, Christmas, delayed, destiny, destroyed, Don Quixote, Fate, fire of empathy, fireworks, flames of compassion, Forever, good souls, gratification, guided tour, Hanukkah, impulsivity, Kwanzaa, lies, light, Nipsey Hussle, Non-Delusional, nostalgic, Oprah, random dude, rebuild, soulmate, thank you, The Plan, The Way, Thinking, truth, unloved, windmills, Winter Solstice“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” -Amos Bronson Alcott I have long struggled with impulse control; that need for immediate gratification and instant reward the moment the task has been completed. I had thought of this as a personality trait and nothing more until recently. Someone…
Mostly Michelle Marie 