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I M Perfect
on the Sturgeon River
A Lady living her truth and sharing her experience.
Interests: Art Quilts, Art, Writing, Spirituality, Reading,
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Thanks Joan. You are so right that change creates uncomfortable and scary feelings for everyone - and that is why so many stop - but for me there didn't seem to be an option - I kept making the next hard choice - for I couldn't have lived with my awareness and self - unchanged. While it was a hard choice, living a lie for me would have been much worse.
Thanks again for all your wisdom.
Our Family Legacy.
I didn't fully understand the trauma response, until I witnessed the opposite of it. When I was a mother of young children, I didn't even have this language or the awareness that what I was doing had a name. And more, that it was possible to course correct. Actually I didn't even know I wa...
Thanks Ann. I love your added layer of wisdom "Enlightenment requires choices." Yes - I feel that once you see things differently - it would be a lie - not to change. It isn't easy to make new choices - actually quite hard - but as you said the rewards are huge.
Our Family Legacy.
I didn't fully understand the trauma response, until I witnessed the opposite of it. When I was a mother of young children, I didn't even have this language or the awareness that what I was doing had a name. And more, that it was possible to course correct. Actually I didn't even know I wa...
Our Family Legacy.
Posted 7 days ago at IMPERFECT Lady
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Thanks so much for your kind words and understanding and openness of our friendship. We have shared so much and helped each other through tough times. It is true that once you start seeking the truth in one area, it spreads into all spaces. I truly appreciate the friends who are willing to dig deep and live a life where they honor their truth, no matter where it leads.
I too look forward to sharing creativity with you as well as insights along the way.
Thanks for being you and letting me see so many different aspects of you.
What you don't know.
Yesterday a woman who had great influence in my life turned 90. I did not celebrate. This woman began programming me as a young child. Both in religious ways and codependent dysfunctional ways. She created the daughter she needed and I dutifully followed her lead. As a child I looked up to he...
So perfectly said. I agree. We have shared much around my kitchen table. And life has made us wiser and more accepting to change and open to other walks of life. Thanks for being you.
I Hold You in My Heart
I watched Michele Obama being interviewed about her latest book "The Light We Carry" with Oprah and they talked about Michele's friends. The ones she calls her Kitchen Table. The Kitchen Table has a relaxed image - one where we don't have to put on aires. We can be ourselves in this group. I...
Part of recovering and leaving the dysfunctional family is to feel the empty pain of aloneness - from them. And yet at the same time I am empowered that I changed the direction of my legacy.
Working through these feelings, writing helps to sort it out and figure out where I am and what I can learn.
Thanks for your words.
What you don't know.
Yesterday a woman who had great influence in my life turned 90. I did not celebrate. This woman began programming me as a young child. Both in religious ways and codependent dysfunctional ways. She created the daughter she needed and I dutifully followed her lead. As a child I looked up to he...
Thanks Dawn - I hear you and understand this journey has been so worth it on so many levels. And, that I changed my legacy for the future of my children and theirs... Yet. It I still feel the sorrow and emptiness of having left my family. I am grateful to hold both feelings of empowerment and empty at the same time.
Feeling empty won't lead me to stop or change direction. It is a feeling I work through.
What you don't know.
Yesterday a woman who had great influence in my life turned 90. I did not celebrate. This woman began programming me as a young child. Both in religious ways and codependent dysfunctional ways. She created the daughter she needed and I dutifully followed her lead. As a child I looked up to he...
I Hold You in My Heart
Posted May 1, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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What you don't know.
Posted Apr 30, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Ann, it was so fun to be with them - and notice the changes of them getting older. Their attention span and attention to detail is unreal. Yes, that Max is a little sweetheart who won't be outshone by his sister, he is right in there acting 3.
First stop of our Road trip.
We took a Spring vacation - heading south and west - towards the mountains. Stopping first to see our two grandchildren in North Dakota. They were so fun and warmed right up to us. But first we had to drive through some nerve wracking roads for me. The pictures don't show the slush and c...
Back Home
Posted Apr 13, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Miles Closer to home.
Posted Apr 12, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Heading East
Posted Apr 12, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Stir my Soul More
Posted Apr 12, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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More Left to Come Back For.
Posted Apr 11, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Work of Art that Nature Made.
Posted Apr 11, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Waiting to Get In
Posted Apr 11, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Our Car Moving Forward.
Posted Apr 11, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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First stop of our Road trip.
Posted Apr 11, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Beyond Retirement
Posted Mar 8, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Lookalike.
Posted Jan 23, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Exercise in Imagination
Posted Jan 23, 2023 at IMPERFECT Lady
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Yes Joan it isn't always easy - but the older I get the easier it is. We can now start becoming the eccentric old lady. Have fun with our last quarter of life - finding contentment with our selves and our lives is a great feeling. I love how you continue to grow and learn! And yes Sylvi and are good buddies.
Be Yourself
"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year make a resolution to be yourself." Author Unknown My granddaughter and I were in the basement creating - there is a chair that is painted with a collage of words - "Be the Real you" is one of the phrases. She asked, "Grandma wha...
Hey Mark, nice to hear from you. I agree by sharing how we feel others can help carry our tough emotions and - at very least make us feel less alone.
I love how children are most authentic, and often we talk them out of their feelings or moods. The best thing we can teach a child is to be how they feel.
Thanks for popping in. I hope you and yours are well.
Be Yourself
"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year make a resolution to be yourself." Author Unknown My granddaughter and I were in the basement creating - there is a chair that is painted with a collage of words - "Be the Real you" is one of the phrases. She asked, "Grandma wha...
Thanks Ann, I feel the years slipping by and that we only have so much time where you can be outside and physical. I want to do as many adventures as I can, while I can. Here's to having you come on more this year!
Be Yourself
"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year make a resolution to be yourself." Author Unknown My granddaughter and I were in the basement creating - there is a chair that is painted with a collage of words - "Be the Real you" is one of the phrases. She asked, "Grandma wha...
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