I want to be back where, once upon a time, the previous “me” used to be

Keywords: Stories of my life – some , coping , grief journey , joy , loss

The “me” in this photo is almost the “me” before my parents died. This “me” is the one who almost always had an inner joy. Even on the darkest day, this “me” could talk myself out of despair. The current me is “walking a narrow path through the loss………taking sips of sorrow…..” as Julia Alvarez says in her beautiful novel Afterlife.

https://what-mama-thinks.com/2021/11/20/a-place-where-i-want-to-be

I hope to spread recognition on this difficult and often overlooked woman-dominated sport in our society, and showcase the demanding reality of what goes into making the sport look beautiful

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Based on my audience, a strategic choice that I want to make in my blog that is tailored to my audience is to include personal statements from current or retired artistic swimmers, in order to get a better grip on the complexities of the sport, and to elaborate on why society tends to look down on more pre-dominantly female athletics with an emphasis on artistry.

https://brisblog157048278.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/goals-for-this-site

I try really hard to have the right perspective on things and it just doesn’t stay the way I want it to

Keywords: art , philosophy , #1 , animation , christian , comics , community , faith , god , krita , mental-health , psychology , spirituality

Growing up Christian, I was always asked to not focus on things below (worldly things) and on things above (God, eternity, etc.). Now, as I go through a crisis of faith, I find that really hard to do. I really don’t have any idea what I’m supposed to look at. Well, I’ve got a vague idea of what’s beautiful and true. However, aligning your perspective to something sounds like a big deal and I don’t know if what I know right now is of substance or worth committing to.

https://thefourthdimensionoflife.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/perspective

The only career I have ever wanted to have was to be a writer; turns out it’s a lot harder than I imagined

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I wound up in the education field, which I also love, but there is still nothing that compares to the bliss of sitting down and getting lost in my own thoughts. So this blog is my attempt at keeping myself accountable as well as sharing all the crazy beautiful madness that goes on in my head.

https://dayswithdarlene.wordpress.com

I found out I wanted to write a book about life, or there would be no book at all

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Why about life? Because everything in life is so awful and beautiful. Every little thing created on this world is so pretty, every little thing so atrocious. Because nothing seems to exist in life isolated from another thing. Can you believe it, can you personally reconcile it? I cannot, for sure. I cannot believe the webs of relationships between the most beautiful and horrid things in life, which is why I have always wanted to write about them. Can this ever happen, on a blog? I DON’T KNOW! @_@ inshallah I hope so.

https://saintalia.wordpress.com/2021/05/22/i-am-not-impressed