I'm F**king BONKERS! (A Thought Train)

A Thought Train; 29th-30th May 2023

Just now I was looking on my old USB Jump drives for some of my old blog/website graphics and such, and started looking through the things I saved. I had to stop because now, looking back at things I did, said, and more, I have to say… I was fucking bonkers! What the hell in a handbasket was I even thinking?? *sigh*

Songs From The Spiral #3

          Sorry for the delay on the audio this week. It simply was not ready on Tuesday, but I think I can bring it out now. :-)

          This week's offering is different than the previous two (#1 & #2) as this one is NOT an a capella. This is actually my first attempt at a) figuring out a rhythm part, and b) working with multi-track recording and mic volume controls. This is a whole new ballpark for me that I never would have thought myself to be in even one year ago. I never even thought to use the mic on my huge monitor for the purposes of recording my singing until something came over me to try back around the 14th or 15th of November this year (2011)! I've been seeing more potential in these far from ideal means, and I am going to do my best to strive toward that. It is necessary for me to do this for not only my future but for my soul, and it is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Let's believe that, shall we?

Such A Little Thing Makes A Big Difference

          With Christmas just about on top of us (Happy Festivus!), I could easily write about my views on the gross commercialism of the holiday and how it destroys the heart of it. But I won't be doing that with this article. Although I do have strong opinions on such things, there are so many people in the blog-o-sphere and around the web that have done so already, many with the same thoughts as myself. I'll leave it to them, whomever they may be, to voice that part for me this year.

          For this week's article, I will be relaying something that happened in my world yesterday and the thought processes it got me going on. It was a reminder to me about not only how important my role is as a mother, but it's also something that can remind us all that, often times, it's those little things that truly matter to those we love and care about.

Grab a cuppa and take a read. :-)

Notable Quotes #1 - Joseph Campbell & Carl Jung

“Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment -not discouragement- you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”


-- Joseph Campbell

This quote had me thinking of the one I use under the title of this blog...

"I am am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to become." -- Carl Jung

How you go about your trials makes all the difference, and how you move on from them even more so. Funny how this is actually what the article that I'm writing for Thursday explores, isn't it? ;-)


(Also: Thanks to The Daily Love, via their daily e-mail today, for the amazing Joseph Campbell quote!)