Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2025

A Mariners Memoir 2026



It has been a year since my last post.

January 22 2025

This past year has been about my journey

 not an uncommon one for 

someone my age.

76 

My personal journey has felt more like a sea voyage, that I am afloat, sometimes adrift,

as on a ship, the sails catching the winds of... as my doctor prefaced with.....

" age related" health issues.

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THE ANCIENT MARINER

poem



" You have arrived where you are supposed to be....and it is too soon."...

I first heard this quote in a film by the wise old character to the middle-aged man in crisis.

This sounded like me, as a child, when I was unable to take hold of my life's events.

 filled with trauma and neglect. I was only given the choice to survive or not.

 This year began with a new diagnosis beyond the anxious, depressive, manic or suicidal person that would designate which meds I was prescribed.

I have lived long enough to have a treatment and new diagnosis that will address the childhood pain and begin the road to my own authentic self at 76

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This is where I can alter the quote to read .....

"I am where I am supposed to be ....and it's not too late."

With this new treatment and recovery, I have been able face the five surgeries I have successfully 

completed. They include two new hips, new lenses in both eyes and a new right knee. 

My 1949 model reached the end of the warranty, and I have a new model 2025!

I am grateful it was not too late to heal my mind and body together, to live out my remaining years as fearless as possible.

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This quote has now evolved again to read......

"I am where I am supposed to be......and I am right on time"...


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This is my New Years 2026 wish for all to "be" present in your life and with the ones

you love. To be kind to all, no matter what.

AMEN





 

 

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

No Mud, No Lily


No words, No poem

No poem, No Words

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[ I have only a couple of poems I have written. Yet I know from where they come from. An experience and a feeling I want to share. It begins in the heart, moves to words, then the words can recreate the experience and hopefully the heart of the poet. Painting is sometimes referred to as a colorful poem. These I have to many to count. Often the response  to my painting is "I feel happy when I look at it!" As a person with many long bouts of depression in my life, I was amazed to know my true heart was being seen and felt.}



No mud, no Lily

No  lily, no sunlight

No sunlight, no colors

No colors, no sun

No sun, no moonlight

No moonlight, no darkness

No darkness, no light

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No tears, no joy

No joy, no peace

No peace, no faith

No faith, no forgiveness

No forgiveness, no repentance 

No repentance, no crucifixion

No crucifixion, no resurrection

No resurrection, no Jesus

No Jesus, No God

No God, no compassion

No compassion, no Love

No LOVE, No GOD

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No God, no free will

No free will, no crime

No crime, no Justice

No justice for all, no equality for all

No equality for all, no democracy

no democracy, no freedom

No freedom, no expression

No expression, no Art

No Art, no enlightenment

No enlightenment, no responsibility

No ability to respond, no humanity

No humanity, no suffering

No suffering, no humanity.

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no blog, no readers

no readers, no blog

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