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It’s turning into
A tale of woe
Where once was trust
Now feels like foe
What they’re doing
Not trying to hide
For one to conquer
You must divide
It really is
A heinous crime
To take your life
And steal your time
Changing thoughts
And stirring hate
Just so they can
Manipulate
Us all
Rhyme and Reason
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For a bit of bright on a dull day.
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The mid morning clouds were a bit strange yesterday over the hills, streaky and diagonal. Not often do I see that.
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A lovely flower that reminds me of my grandmother. She had them growing in their garden and would have a small bunch fresh on the table when they were in season. They look and smell really pretty and brighten up the garden nicely.
This is one of the very few photos I have of an organgetip butterfly, they are so quick and rarely land, but this one let me take a few pictures.
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How can a year
Feel so long
The strangest one
That’s gone so wrong
Whatever plans
We thought we had
It started good
Then went to bad
So much delayed
And put on hold
Dreams and lives
Are now controlled
It’s hard to swallow
And really accept
The ones who lead us
Are blindly inept
And at their whim
Ourselves we find
While in this play
We’re all entwined
To whatever end
Rhyme and Reason
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Only two months into being in Spain, I saw my first mantis. Out walking with the camera after a storm, it was just sitting there on a low wall, I couldn’t believe it. I really didn’t expect it to be so randomly there so was elated. My first photo of a mantis, which was followed by many more and will be appearing in upcoming posts 🙂
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The second day of December started with a dark and moody sunrise…
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This isn’t a review because it’s not about the film as a film but more a point of interest within it – but can say from a review standpoint having watched it all the way through – it didn’t quite deliver. Face to face I can talk about films for hours but online I try to keep it brief.
This is your average rom com with popular leading actors with Cameron Diaz playing one of the leads in her bright smiley way (she is pleasant to watch). But the reason I bring up this film in a non review context and her character in particular is that there were two specific moments that perfectly showed what I think Hyperphantasia is or at least it gave a good visual representation of it. Which was actually quite handy as my husband has Aphantasia so for him, he can’t ‘imagine’ what’s it’s like. This was a good way for him to actually ‘see’ what I had been trying to tell him about my sometimes seemingly neurotic brain. He managed to sit through a small portion of the film having less of a tolerance for watching pap than I do, but he hot the point.
The two examples that stick with me after the fact are –
She is trying to sleep, and the next day starts running through her head, almost causing a panic attack because it was so frantic and busy. I know this process well. And the second is when she is explaining to the potential love interest why it wouldn’t work out and runs through the entire scenario she has already worked out in her mind. These two things in particular were and are exactly what I do (although this movie wasn’t about Hyperphantsia, I spotted what I now see as the signs of it). Until I knew how my husband thought i.e. no pictures, no imagining tomorrow, and sure as hell no run through of any conversation he had had previously, or was going to have in the future. I had believed everyone had this frantic level of thinking, planning and general non stop thoughts. I thought everyone thought through what they were going to do later than day, or the next day. I think I believed they just managed it better than me and didn’t get bogged down by it. But now I know better…
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The calm of nature’s designs.
Up Close With Nature — Jane Lurie Photography
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