warmthofrelease raze what you just wrote on the_story_of_my_mom is searing in its honesty and intensity. those words ran right through me. i don't know who you are. but i'm glad you're here. in all senses of the word. 240130 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I second that! You're a powerful storyteller and the piece captures tangly emotions in a few words. Made me wonder what we carry forward from our parents. My mom was a bit the opposite, anxious about little things (e.g. when I was a baby, she worried why my baseline temperature was lower than "normal" - turns out the normal on that can vary). Anyway, please do stick around to write more things (if that's something you want to do). 240130 ... raze i like your old_shit. it's good shit. (and maybe i just wanted an excuse to say "shit" a bunch of times here, BUT YOU DELIVERED.) 240222 ... releaseofwarmth thank you for the kindness. there is more old_shit where that came from. in fact there's a stack of paper 5x as thick that you won't see, compared to the stack of things I -might- be able to do something with. but it's kind of the only productive thing I'm doing in this goddamn d(r)ead of winter. so if you like it I'm glad, and good news for you--more to come. 240223 ... raze down_the_slide_of_freedom is one powerful poem. holy_shit did i feel that one. 250113 ... e_o_i raze beat me to it, but seconded. Hell yes. It reminds me of a worry seesaw of my own (similar, not the same - slide vs. seesaw, see) where I'm going side to side with the something like "If too many people depend on me, I'll let them down. If no one depends on me, I won't have motivation to DO anything." 250113 ... e_o_i edits (ignore the "the" before "something") 250113 what's it to you? who go blather from