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Blessed are the Book Worms

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I found this pic I took of two of  (my many) “favorite books”.   I can say with confidence I will never be an owner of a Kindle or Nook. Ya, they’re neat and cool and technologically savvy but nothing compares with opening a book and FEELING the pages. I love they way all my books look in my book cases, too.  I love rearranging them periodically and in the process, thumbing through old favorites and refreshing my memory of the stories and content within them. No technology is comparable to that, to me, anyway.

I found this quote floating around on the interweb and it made me smile….

 

“BLESSED ARE THE CHILDREN OF  BOOK WORMS. FOR THEY INHERIT THE BOOKS!”

 

Happy Reading~

Abby Rae

 

 

The Game of Life and How to Play It

 

I just started reading this book and find it fascinating. I was raised Catholic but learned to despise the dogma of conformed religion. Please do not get me wrong, I have an imense gratitude of my upbringing but my spirit always guided me to know and learn more. Florence Scovel Shinn uses words of  the Spripture  in the way I feel and believe them to have been used. The ebook is available for free distribution~ Why? because it was written in the 20′s! ! and copyright law alows it ;)

I hope you enjoy it and pass it along!

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True Romance

Sad to hear of director Tony Scott’s tragic passing this evening. I was 13 in 1993 when  True Romance came out and it is safe to say that by the age of 15, I had watched it over 20x’s. Tony’s extraordinary direction in this film entranced me.  His work will be remembered for many, many generations to come.

Cheers the gifts he shared~

Oh, Shit I Got a Head Rush!

 

 

Read if you like to giggle about the occasional  use of psychedelic drugs or if you just like to giggle abut silly things in general  ~ Took me bake to the ’90′s~ the candy aisle at the local gas station never looked so beautiful :)

 

All The Times That I Did Mushrooms « Thought Catalog.

Total Eclipse of the Mind

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 Did ya get to see the Eclipse last night??!! I loved seeing the pics but unfortunately, I was not in a peek site to see it well and it got awfully cloudy her in Mid-Missouri ;)  Although I did not get the pleasure of seeing it with my own eyes, I sure as hell felt it’s effects! The annular eclipse was in the sign of Gemini (Twins) that rules my HOME and FAMILY~ I spent the morning hanging out with my daughter, playing board games; the afternoon joyriding with my husband talking (I verbalized my desire to go for my Master’s in Psychology/Counseling) and listening to Silversun Pickups new album Neck of the Woods (which is phenomenal!! XOXOXO)! ; and spent the evening by myself, as my two darlings were asleep by 8:30PM!

I am an only child and I am not ashamed to admit that I flippin’ love to be by myself~~ I can  reflect and think and ponder and wonder and do whatever the heck I wanna! (FREEDOM!!) For some reason I was drawn to read the Book of Revelation! Yes, weird, I know, but Gemini rules the mind and I just rolled  to where my mind took me, ya dig? I’m still on a bit of a mind trip from that read but luckily, I found an artful and brilliantly directed movie to deflect the thoughts of the Seven Seals, called Blue Valentine, with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

I did not jump on The Notebook bandwagon and to honest, the only flick I’ve seen him in is Remember the Titans but after watching Blue Valentine, I could feel a kick of OCD set in cuz I wanna see every film he has acted in, now!  I thought Blue Valentine was simply beautiful, perhaps because it mirrored quite closely to the my own marriage in many ways. There is reverent subtlety that is used to encompass  many deep aspects (alcoholism, mental/physical abuse) that I thought was genius because it gave more power to the acting.

Watching it made me feel extremely greatful that my husband was sleeping (snoring, actually) right beside me because three years ago he was not. We had moved to this ugly dimension of resentment and anger, which led me to pick the hell up and leave. At the time, my daughter was two and I thought I was doing the right thing. “She doesn’t deserve to see all this arguing and fighting” I would say.  I was shocked as all get out that happiness did not lie in my departure and shocked even more when I finally realized and took responsibility for my own behavior and part in the breakdown of our relationship, which in turn gave me great empowerment to get back everything that was thrown away so quickly (everything except my Christmas decorations…) I was pissed at myself for not fulfilling my “potential” and hated my ho-hum life,which shadowed all the positive aspects of my personality and I morphed into SUPER BITCH. I called out every wrong behavior on my husband him but did not clearly see my own and I blamed the hell out of him, wasting gobs of energy into a  bottomless pit of ~  Blue Valentine is both heartwarming and heartbreaking, as you watch the characters morph into their own ugly dimension.

Ahhh, this Eclipse is still workin’ its energy in my mind, my actions and my attitude towards pretty much everything!

If your feeling frogging, jump to the link below! It will help you learn more about this Mindful Energy of the Gemini Eclipse in your own life. It is uploaded to the  Pisces scope, so just click on your Sun sign or your Rising Sign, which is more attune to YOU~

Daily Pisces Horoscope – Monday, May 21, 2012.

Be Loving and Be Mindful~

Abby Rae

Fathomed Thoughts (poetry)

I WROTE THESE POEMS WHEN I WAS 18 AND 19 YEARS OLD~  TWO OF THE DARKEST YEARS I WENT THROUGH BUT I DO NOT REGRET THEM, FOR I WOULD NOT BE THE PERSON I AM TODAY WITHOUT THEM!  THEY AMUSE THE HELL OUTTA ME WHEN I REFLECT BACK ON THE EXPERIENCES THAT CREATED SUCH ANGST IN ME!

 

JUNE 16, 1998  10:38 PM

We could all be philosophers~

if

we

just

use

our

heads (HEARTS!)

 

 

June 16, 1998  10:45PM

Damn! I’m BRILLIANT!

if only people could SEE!…

if only I could SEE myself.

 

 

DEUCE

It is beyond mesmerizing and bordering on insane

To witness the morphing personality

One so awkwardly pleasant

The other so mysteriously reckless

Do you even know

where you are at times?

 

 

VACANT EYES

feeling the stare of vacant eyes

the sound of muffled cries

I miss you

an averse heart begins to stir

with memories of what and who you were

I MISS you

The distant stare

is too much to bear

I miss YOU

Won’t you please come back

from the  dismal abyss of the black

I miss YOU

 

 

DEPRESSION

new light breaks from the horizon

the blue birds cannot cease from singing

their joyous harmony of appreciation

in this NEW DAY

all appears beautiful in this corner of the world

but I have a headache

 

 

THE SEAMSTRESS

How do you mend a wounded SOUL?

It is too difficult to embrace

for it has a marathon runner’s heart

Conversing with it is futile

for it speaks in foreign tongues

It lacks the ability to play

as it has lost its childlike essence

Where to do turn when all appears LOST

How do you mend a wounded SOUL?

 

 

MEMORIES

The memories of you

they will not fade.

I refuse to let them

these memories I’ve made.

Locked in my heart

they will forever stay.

Nothing can rip or steal

these memories away.

An intricate collaboration of carefree days

in the wild sun’s light

Intertwined with hours of restless fear

under the blanket of night.

I covet these memories of you

but refuse to create any new.

 

 

LOCKED INSIDE

Walls closing in

nowhere to go and nothing to do but think

Will I go CRAZY

from all these thoughts

crammedinmyhead??????????

I do not yet feel I can set them free

So

they

stay

forever

mixed-up

in

my

head

 

 

 

ACHING TIME

Time aches through our bones

with each passing hour

heads like a boulder

minds like stones

Amusing and confusing faces

crowd the streets

drawing the  life

out of too many peaceful places

Will the slow flow of time

finally draw cause  to bend

It must

It will

turn rocks to water

at the end

 

 

SOLELY  EXISTING

Do not think tonight

Just Breath tonight

Know you are OKAY

Believe your Okay

in the simplicity

that you are HERE

This shall be NOW

the only mattering fact

It shall be the only fact that ever

really matters at all

 

Depression 2

the world is FUCKED UP

don’t give a damn ’bout your looks of shame

because you, too, know it’s true

the entirety of the world

is hanging by a single thread

each of us one leap from the edge

with no fear of going the distance

the future has its grasp

on our weary, little necks

Don’t flatter me with your optimistic opinions

and Pollyanna attitudes towards it all!

THE WHOLE WORLD IS FUCKED UP

AND YOU KNOW IT

New Moon in Taurus~ SELF WORTH

TAURUS NEW MOON

What’s a NEW MOON?…When the SUN and the MOON are in the same sign

A NEW MOON can mean a NEW YOU! Read that again…It “can” mean a new you. Everything you need is there for a fresh start in the area that TAURUS rules in your natal chart is there; it is all up to you on how you USE it!!

Feel the lightning bolt, yet?…heehee! It has taken me 31 one years to really “feel” this one~ I suppose it’s because Taurus energy is so damn Pokey but this year, THIS YEAR , I GET IT!  Have I lost ya, yet?  I don’t wanna rewrite all the info on it, so if your lost click the links to expand your mind and we can be on the same page or not; the choice is yours;)

 What I do wanna write about is how this beautiful Taurus energy has affected me!

Taurus rules my 3rd house (Communication)~ which is empty! What the hell! So, I don’t know how to communicate? haha I do know how  to communicate when I wanna! My Empty 3rd house simply means I do not really need any extra gusto in this area~ However… I have Chiron in Taurus in my 2nd house!  Chiron, the wounded healer in Greek mythology~ and the bane of my existence…this is how it felt for a loooooong time, anyway~ a  complete world of self loathing, feelings of inadequacy and the fear of never being able to achieve or get what I want.  I thought Life was bitch and I let her slap the hell outta me!  (I don’t communicate when this aspect is haunting/hurting me because I don’t think my thoughts are WORTH anything)

Somewhere along the line ( I can’t really pin point when it hit), I started thinking about all the dreams and hopes I had when I was a little girl! I wanted to go beyond the moon and over the rainbow! and somewhere along the line (I do know this one but I will save it for my book :) ) I was wounded (Chiron). I depended and bended too much on what others thought, or what I thought they thought, and not what I KNEW deep down in my heart and soul was true about ME. (dammit!)

When I was a Freshman in Highschool, I wanted  to go to Chicago after I graduated. It just felt like something I should do, ya know? Break out of the small town life and LIVE! One little comment by a classmate, deterred that dream. It was said in Biology class sophomore year, “You’ll never leave here, your whole family is from here, aren’t they? My family lives all over…”  the comment wasn’t said meanly, just matter-of-factly. The worst thing I could have done was buy into it and I did.  I was an Honor student with a full ride scholarship to college and I stayed in that ramshackle of a town and got semi-hooked on meth a year after a graduated. YA! meth. Makes me wanna puke just writing it! (more about that experience at another time).  My other experiences with my Chiron in Taurus are in previous posts. Check em out~ I Need a New Pair of Shoes  and   Satisfied Mind.

It took me so looooong to right that wrong turn. Hell, I’m still righting (writing) it! But the point is I recognize where my weakness lies. In that conscious awareness, it is helping ME and maybe help YOU figure out where your wounds lie~

PS  I worked for years as a nurse on a Chemical Dependency Unit~ In my opinion, addictions will never heal unless you fix your OLD WOUNDS. They are deep and many do not want to go that far down but the addiction will show back up in one form or another, unless that OLDEST DEEPEST WOUND is HEALED~

Peace, Love, & Healing to you ALL,

Abby Rae

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