Month One Thoughts

We are now four days into living in our new apartment.

Small Kindnesses to the Self

I've come off a frenetic two weeks of knocking things off my to-do list and visiting people. I over-scheduled in my attempt to front-load as many tasks as possible.

Recent Media Consumed

Covers: The Jews and Their Lies, Atlas Shrugged, The Glass Castle, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and more!

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

I stopped praying over my food a long time ago. I didn't see the point. I didn't see any change whether I prayed over it or not, and I certainly didn't understand the words dropping by rote from my lips.

And I Love You

I don't think it is too much of an exaggeration to say that when Sergey and I moved to this house in Spring, we came to it the way wounded animals crawl into a burrow to lick their wounds. We each endured a blow that exploded our respective frameworks of how the world works.

Defeating Dark Angels In Practice

I fell down the rabbithole and entered Wonderland. Or perhaps I have emerged from that dark, cramped rabbithole, out of the insanity and contradictions that had me lost and confused and wandering mazes for most of my life, and am seeing a wide open meadow for the first time.

The Home Run Swing

Being Bipolar 2 can have the occasional upside.

Facts: On Absurdity and Offense

For the last couple of weeks I've been more than a little obsessed with a rap/hip-hop song and I think that's a sign that I need to sit down and analyze its lyrics and my reaction to them.

Recent Media Consumed

Covers: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Suzume, The Sound of Freedom, Peter Pan, and more!

Early-Stage Language Fears

How often do you think about your language as your mother tongue? How often do you think about how comfortable it is to be surrounded by it?

Recent Media Consumed

Covers: Once An Arafat Man, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, Donut County, Star Trek: Discovery, and more!

Values

Askfriend wonders: What values do you hold? Do you live them day to day? How important is it for you to uphold your values?

2023 Goal Recap and 2024 Goals

Having learned from my 2022 goals what reasonable goal-setting looks like, I resolved to push several of my projects to the next stage while tackling a couple smaller personal growth projects. I drew up a list of goals that seemed pretty reasonable and started my year.

Evolution of Skytes and The Keep

As I work on the end of an upcoming story arc, Remara and the Tiny Man, I wanted to take a moment and trace the history of this particular segment.

Evolving Purpose

Askfriend wonders: What do you believe to be your purpose in life? Does it change/evolve with time?