Reptile Visitations

I am feeling:

overwhelmed
angry
sad
lonely
put upon

I am none of these things.
They are, after all, only feelings. Flighty things that can come on like a fierce storm or

creep in like a lizard…

This crocodile like creature showed up last night and hung around longer than I wanted and then quietly disappeared.

Just like those pesky feelings.

This morning I was walking the hills when I came upon a snake draped across my path and I thought what the what is with the reptile visitations? The snake would not budge no matter how many stones and curses I flung at it. It lay there looking at me, my heart racing, alone on that hillside. I finally walked into the dry brush to walk around it. I made it out alive. Barely.

So it’s like that today.

Feelings and snakes.

They come they go. You can throw stones and curse if you want.

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Same here in Florida. Frankly, I would rather deal with the reptiles than the feelings. Unfortunately, there is not much choice with either.

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It started out that way here in new York too but I am happy to note that after I walked out of work in the middle of the afternoon and finished my editing assignments from the serenity of my home the day got immeasurably better. I love the wisdom and poetry of this, the making peace with our human condition. It has occurred to me lately that women deeply need other women. I need you. Your gentle insight. Your kindness. Your friendship and understanding. I hope your day improved too dear Yolie. The autocorrect on my kindle fire keeps trying to make your name say “holier”. Manes sense to me!

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I love what Angella said — if Ms. Moon and she are the beacons on the east coast, perhaps you and I are holding down the west. We all seem to have been in similar moods today —

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