Madness Is A Virtue

what a week huh?

world heritage post

I was here for that, absolutely epic.

FREE SPIRITS OF THE STEPPE

THE COSSACK HERO AND HIS FAITHFUL FRIEND

Compilation of my artworks (various techniques) from 2021-2024

Very ballsy move to steal 6 mostly branded, identifiable horses with a giant trailer.

Sometimes you do fall down. Sometimes you fall back. Sometimes you struggle and think all you do is fail.

I encourage you to stop right now and think about every time you picked yourself back up. Every time you kept going when you wanted to give up.

You have done so much more than you give yourself credit for.

Try not to forget all you've accomplished, and know that the failures do not define you.

Therapeutic fibs are a necessity in dealing with dementia patients as the truth really doesn't matter...

The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]

points about this -it was shot off by a cannon -he continued being a knight for over 40 years after getting the iron hand -it was delicate enough he could still write with a quill using it, which is important as he was described as a ‘warrior poet’ -after a merchant-punching life suitable for an elder scrolls protagonist he was outlawed by the holy roman empire, friends of his used a high diplomacy roll and a bribe to get him out, and he then almost immediately kidnapped a bishop -after outlaw of the holy roman empire 2 electric boogaloo was placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards to spend the next 20 years drunk off his ass

I can’t believe you’d make this post and not mention that his poetry contains the first known usage of the phrase “lick my ass”

What a story!! What??? I now have to do a search on him. And where is the film that should have been made? What a life. Thanks for sharing.

I know it’s a cliché, but recovery takes time. Things are going to change and get better. Where you are a year from now, several years from now, will likely be very different. Please keep trying.

It's okay if certain popular positive phrases don't sit right with you.

Maybe you see "Holding onto hate is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die" and the message makes you feel guilty, or wrong for feeling hate or anger towards the person who hurt you.

Maybe you see "People treat you the way you allow yourself to be treated" and it makes you feel guilty for the trauma you endured. Maybe it makes you feel like you didn't do enough and don't deserve to be upset. Maybe it makes you feel bad because you're in a situation where it isn't safe or feasible to get away or set boundaries with the people in your life who do treat you poorly.

Maybe you see "No one can love you until you love yourself first" and you feel terrible. Like no one can ever love you because loving yourself is such an impossible goal at the moment.

It's really okay if certain phrases you see spreading don't sit right with you. They help some people, and that's really valid, but you aren't wrong or a failure if they don't help you. We all have different needs, and no post is ever going to help or be right for everyone.

You are still valid. It's okay to need to hear different things. So, I'll say this to those of you that want or need to hear it.

It's okay to hate the people who hurt you. It's okay to be angry at them. While there are healthier ways to handle your feelings than others, no feeling is inherently bad. And it is okay and valid to feel these things. In a lot of cases, feeling these things is a step in healing because you've realized that they're who you should be mad at instead of yourself. And I think that's great. I think there comes a point when your anger is hurting you, but the emotion itself is okay to feel and can be used in productive ways.

I also want to say that no matter what, it isn't okay for people to treat you poorly. You never deserve it. And it's okay to have complicated feelings. It's okay to feel like you have nothing but bad choices. Sometimes the choice with less consequences is dealing with bad treatment until we can safely or realistically get away from that person. Sometimes you just aren't ready. And I get it, and while I hope you can get away or set boundaries eventually, you don't deserve the treatment just because you aren't in a place to do that now.

And people can absolutely love you if you don't love yourself. I am not at a point in my healing where I love myself. Truthfully, I don't know if I ever will be. I reached for self-neutrality instead of self-love, and it helps. And I know that I am beyond loved by certain people in my life.

It's okay to have different goals, needs, and ways we cope.

Sometimes we contribute to our own pain. Sometimes it’s because we’ve been conditioned to think we deserve it. Sometimes it’s because we’re “used” to it and maybe feel off when it’s not there. Sometimes it’s because we’re scared to be happy, because we feel it’s inevitable something bad will happen.

You didn’t choose to be traumatized. You didn’t choose to feel like this.

I just want you to know it can get better. You can unlearn old patterns and learn new and healthier ones. You don’t have to be stuck in this cycle forever.

I can not believe it has already been 2 years!

Fabulous routine!

Wow this is incredible!! I would watch more of her, definitely a talented young woman.

I read this today...

Overthinking kills joy, doubt kills trust, lust kills love, ego kills development.

Now read that backwards...

The World and Five of Wands reversed

Could everyone please stop fighting and breaking things for five minutes?

.......THEY SAID NO DOGS ALLOWED!

SOME REPLIES:

How sad. I am so sorry @bobbydoguk. London was always my favorite city, and I spent so much time there in happiness. Wow. Hyde Park. Trying to wrap my mind around it... Just a couple of hundred years ago this was where even the highest-ranking elites would go each day to promenade.

This is not my country, but I am going to make an observation. And this one is getting harder for me to mind my tongue on, and perhaps my own business. But if Charles has the say on this issue and he is allowing it, he must be even more firmly in the pockets of the WEF than I can absorb. I always at least through all these decades believed he was well educated. He seems to have a strong love for preserving many things. But I have been around long enough to watch him lock step with the global agendas. And he, like them, have not even hidden it or what that is.

History shows what is coming. And he is working towards if not his own demise... the demise of his legacy and the monarchy. I have no idea what his pals promised him. But promises are empty and easily broken when countries are being invaded, sold out, and plundered.

My heart breaks for you England, The UK, Europe, and all of the west. We are not far behind, and in fact it is speeding up. Propaganda is legal in the US and right now there is lying going on. But the actions are speaking loudly and we are following in our British cousins' wake. I am finding myself shifting through memories, getting my present life sorted, and preparing for what is a very grave possible outcome in the future.

They are not even hiding it.

Thanks for the space for a bit of a morning mini-vent. Okay, time for coffee. And then cat petting, cutting back some flowers in my very small garden, and then thinking about what to prepare for a Sunday supper. Day is calling and the weather much cooler.

Love to friends here.

@dflogerzi Well said, and I absolutely feel the same... we are headed for some dark times. As always, I enjoy reading your perspective on things.