I’m sad.  Not depressed in a clinical sense.  I’ve been there before.  I know what that feels like.  This isn’t it.  I’m just...unhappy. I have things to be happy about.  I am in no way destitute, but I am still unhappy with life in general.  I haven’t reached the pinnacle, though in many ways I’m much closer than most realize. 

As I look around at the landscape I realize this wasn’t the mountain I wanted to climb.  It was so hard to tell down there at the bottom which one I had started on, and the crossroads were all blind instinct.  Now, after all that work, I’m not where I wanted go or even on that path.  There is nothing wrong with where I ended up.  In fact some seem to be impressed by it.  How do I explain that yes, there is some notoriety here, but I wanted the notoriety over there instead.  It’s like shooting the hat off a person when you were aiming for the apple.  Yeah it was a cool shot, but not what you wanted.

Some people find themselves in this situation, and happily surprised, just keep going.  There are those that the question of which mountain they are on never mattered as long as they had something to reach for.  There are those that any success acted as personal empowerment and they gladly set on that mountain path headless of the rocks.  In fact those persons seem to be able to leap over chasms and move boulders.  We look at them as shining examples.  I am not in competition with anyone so I am happy for their success.

I was not meant for mountain climbing

I’m not made for that kind of life.  Success to me is far less tangible.  All those plateaus and peaks and crags and valleys are fun and interesting, but not meant for me.  I’ve always rejected the rat race.  I reject the idea that I have to reach for anything at all. I challenge the need to have a traditional job, or parent like our society says, or live my life by any standard.  I fully resent money.  I resent the need to earn by someone else’s standard in order just to live.  Why can’t I barter for food?  Why can’t I make my own shelter?  Why must I live life in this way?  I can fool myself, by finding something semi interesting to do for a time, into thinking that I can live by these means.  I excel most of them time when I set my mind to it.  I’ve even made a name for myself in certain circles, for what it’s worth.  In the end, though, I always end up feeling dissatisfied.

I have a deep need to live life unfettered.  I hate being tied down by anything.  Some ties I choose, like my children and lovers, but my lovers know never to hold me back, and my children will one day fly on their own.  While I love animals of all kinds I don’t own many pets, other than cats, because I can’t just up and go when I want to.  Cats can handle a night or two without you as long as there’s ample food and water.  My dream is to live out of a mobile home so I can pick up and go whenever.  Once we almost did just that with plans on homeschooling the kids, but we didn’t get the financing in the end.

​I’m tired of trying.  I concede the need for gainful employment and income so we don’t starve, but I’m going to do it my way.  The truth is while my body *does* make working from home a need, I’d choose it anyway.  I’m going to learn what I want to learn.  I’m going to write what I want to write.  I’m going to do my weird crafts.  I’m going to do the things that nourish my soul even if that means I’m a large woman belly dancing in the living room.  If it doesn’t nourish me, it’s gone.  There will be some changes.  Some will not agree with my choices and some may even be hurt by them.  I’m done trying to make my soul fit in a box.  I’m done making the mountain top my only goal.  I don’t feel good labelling myself or closing myself into a space.  Some really need that to feel safe and to grow.  There’s nothing wrong with it.  Just not for me.  I am expansive.  I am limitless.  I am more than the surface you see.

I am adrift in the All That Is, and I go where I am willed.
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This is the last of my Yahoo! stuff.  One of my very few forays into poetry.

Dancing in the Moonlight

I dreamed I was dancing in the moonlight
On a forest shrowded hill.
The wind swirled around my naked body
Alighting every nerve with the earth's will.
I looked out over the world
The magic coloring my sight
And I knew in my very heart of hearts
That this was the night.


The earth balanced on the precipice
Of time changing time
The stars and planets swirled into infinity
In a perfect straight line.

And all around me the forest hushed
Pregnant with sorrow, fear, joy
The unknown
Our little planet insignificant and bold
Hurtling wildly through space
Moved another inch, and then two
And then we were prone.

I stood at the very axis of the change
Feeling the power shoot straight through me
Taking away my body and my soul
But in a tiny little part
No more than a spec I was still me
Watching the world
Become whole.

I saw futures that would never be born
I saw pasts that were wiped from memory
I saw the coliding of realities
The wars and the harmonies

Of all that has been and all that never will be

It was time.
The universe plucked my soul like a musical string.
I could not be sorrowful
For the world that would be lost
I could not be excited
For the world this would bring.
It was time.

My existence sweeped out over infinity
And strangely there was no time left.
The universe called
And only I was left.
The traveler, the shaman
The carrier of the mysteries.
The witch

With a giant heave
I was scarcely strong enough to hold
I pulled myself back in
To one single existence,
One single vessel
One single home.

A planet hurtling wildly through space
Insignificant and bold

The cord to infinity snapped
The sound whipcracking through existence
To be heard by all
But those whose hearts it was supposed to change

The universe held it's breath
Then the earth moved
An inch and then two
The connection was broken
The change begun
The world made new.

I walked on wobbly legs
And slipped through the trees
Back to my bed
Followed by a moonlit breeze

The people watched the sky
Finally feeling what they had missed
But the time was past
The future of our world shapped by the will
Of a single solitary witch

I returned to my home and my bed
Covered myself up in the night
And dreamed of dancing
In the full moonlight