behave or . . . .

All the world’s a stage. No one might exemplify that age-old adage better than being inside my head. 

Swimming in the open ocean gives me a new relationship to my body. Normally, imagination takes over my mind, eclipsing my body - which corresponds with my tendency toward abstraction. 

Depending on my body as a vehicle pulls me away from abstraction. In a strange way, it is grounding, and tilts toward representation - portraying me as being of a certain nature. 

Consider a relationship that is not visible to us, except in the mind’s eye. 

anything, everything, all at once

tact    consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense
tactful    having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
tactless    lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
tactility    the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or sensation 
 
Tact demonstrates how thoughtful, professional, and competent a person is. 

Diplomacy is the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and tactful way.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ~ Isaac Newton
Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way. ~ David Frost

Tact and diplomacy are methods used to aid effective communication, especially during negotiation and when attempting to be persuasive or assertive. 

the notorious catch-all 'whatchamacallit' placeholder

Imagine a former Ukrainian soldier - a young man recently discharged from the frontlines. 
While recovering from his injuries he meets, falls in love, marries a girl from the Philippine islands. 
They decide its best to return to her hometown for now and start their life there together in her barrio. 
 

cooped up

 Highways are neither home nor destination - the open road is a liminal space. The uncanny in-between where rules are blurry, directions are dubious, and help is always just a little too far or too late.

Nowhere and everywhere at once - we leave a place yet are in a limbo of arriving where we're headed. Somebody else chooses the route, the speed, the stops. 

A wrong turn, a broken-down engine, or the wrong stranger at the wrong gas station, and that sense of liberation curdles into something creepy and predatory.

horror hell ride

In real life, we usually keep our thrills controlled. We daydream about the good version of the road trip fantasy - gliding down flawless asphalt in something impossibly sleek and entirely dependable.

honey or bumble bee

Some weeks the world slows you down whether you're ready or not. On a new orbit with a new decade opening up for me I wondered what would unfurl ahead. 

Instead, I've been sick in bed, watching life happen from a distance. Over the trees across the highway, I track the light shift with the weather changing as the day passes. 

native bees are vanishing as honeybees take over

As my eyes refocus closer along the balcony rail, I notice a cluster of bees hovering over a curled up one. It alone is still while the restless crowd buzz overhead. 

I read recently that bees are dying in record numbers. There was a 60% loss of bee colonies this winter alone.

6 : 6 portal

The gateway of Venus energy, unconditional love and deep healing opens today. June 6 opens the 6:6 portal - the most love-charged, heart-opening, and divinely abundant numerological gateway available in the entire calendar year. 

In the language of numbers, 6 carries the vibration of Venus - the force of unconditional love, harmony, beauty, and healing. On 6/6, this energy doubles, creating one of the most open portals of the year for heart activation, releasing old wounds, and aligning with abundance. 

Alex Myles 6:6 post

Three Card Tarot Draw - Aquarian Deck by illustrated by David Palladini, published by Morgan Press, Inc., 1970

babbling emotions

Seven centuries ago, the Persian poet and philosopher Rumi extolled “the eye of the heart” as seventy-fold more seeing than the “sensible eyes” of the intellect. 

Growing up, language has been this tool that emits might and power – expanding reality but also limiting and contracting what is perceived and manifested. 

Tower of Babel

The limits of language and my deepening relationship with it often feel frustratingly fragile and futile. 

jealousy is a bitch

Depending on who you ask, jealousy and envy are either exact synonyms, totally different words, or near-synonyms with some degree of semantic overlap and some differences. It is difficult to make the case, based on the evidence of usage that we have, for either of the first two possibilities. 

Both jealousy and envy are often used to indicate that a person is covetous of something that someone else has, but jealousy carries the particular sense of zealous vigilance and tends to be applied more exclusively to feelings of protectiveness regarding one’s own advantages or attachments. 

At the funeral of a controversial contrary cousin, I sat surrounded by her life stories. Regaled by relatable reminisces from our relatives. What was recalled, repeated or remembered according to whoever was telling it.