Category Archives: overcoming challenges

Community matters

Since the election, I have been running through the gammut of emotions. Anger, defeat, fear, resignation, proactiveness, reactionary, etc.

New year, new garden

This year’s garden is amazing! All the soil additives and treatments have paid off amazingly! This is the purple bok choy, beet leaves, and peas that I harvested this morning for an Asian salad later today. The lettuce is still going strong, being shaded by the rutabaga and beet leaves. The potatoes are flowering, andContinue reading “New year, new garden”

The long fall

It has been a long while since I last wrote. So much has happened.

I am far better

Yesterday, I talked to my coworker who I used to work with at the union. As expected, it was a conversation mostly dominated by the horrible people who were and are still there. I hate regurgitation these things, but yesterday, something interesting happened…

Weekend realities

I realized over the weekend that I need to prepare for being unemployed. I have been hoping beyond hope that I’d be hired long before the deadline, but now, I am not so sure.

Conscientious objector

Back when Hobby Lobby won its bullshit case in the Supreme Court, I read an article written by a Jewish journalist who discussed the main issue with the case Hobby Lobby brought to the court. They claimed to be a “conscientious objector” and, therefore, wanted the law to change to fit their beliefs.

Weekend news

An old coworker of mine sent me a message yesterday. She said she had been thinking of me, and oh, by the way, she lost her eldest son 6 months ago.

Emotional Connections

It seems like we are living in a world where everyone wants emotional connections, but no one actually either knows what that means, or they think they know and are very wrong. All they know is that they are lonely and have needs they can’t fulfill within themselves, and they need to find someone outside of themselves to stop the loneliness.

Limiting Thoughts

One of the things that I think I need a lot of work on is limiting thoughts. Those thoughts in the back of your mind that immediately override all the working thoughts I’m trying to manifest with.