Recent Entries

• Title shmitle

  May 5, 2021

  My therapist had some wonderful housekeeping advice today: Take a couple of days off and just work on this place! I am so lazy, but I should be able to accomplish SOMETHING in a couple of days! Okay, that's all. 😄

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• Back here sooner

  April 17, 2021

  I want to be original. I have been overwhelmed, though, by the feeling that everything I have to write has already been written, and by much better writers than me. My muse is shy and diffident; my inspiration is so far away, and that has been underscored by the pandemic and our countries' manage...

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• A real need for changes

  April 8, 2021

  I miss backgrounds and font choices. Just saying. Some people who became  very dear friends to me, I found on here. I want to return to the back and forth, to and fro nature of things in a quieter place than other social media sites. I want to pour my heart out, even if my…

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• Connections?

  September 16, 2020

  Old friends seem to not be posting. One found me, but when I clicked on her name to see if I had added her to my friends or if I could, there was a message that her diary was unavailable to me, so she's either gone private or left. (Real Simple, where are you?) Another…

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• Intentions

  August 21, 2020

  They are good; they really are. But, of course, they don't get one anywhere. So I keep INTENDING to get writing here again. Old friends, new friends (I think I just accepted a new friend by clicking on a link to their diary?). Anyway: just popping in to say, well, maybe I'll embrace this communit...

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• There’s no place like this

  September 27, 2019

  I know a lot of people will probably not return to Open Diary. I know some people have gone private. I know I haven't made it here in a very long time. But just perusing the first page, I see what is so special about this place. I could never get what I get here…

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• Did you fly?

  September 19, 2018

  When you left your high place before you landed hard on a hard place did it feel like you were flying? In those last moments, did you at least have the sensation of flying away? You broke your promise and took more of my soul away with you than anyone should take from anyone but…

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• And the beat goes on …

  September 7, 2018

  The day before yesterday I found out that my boss of 23 years, the best boss one could hope for, is handing in his resignation. I had to hold back tears. Another loss. He expects to be completely gone by early December, because bosses have to give HR three months' notice. I have no love…

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• Doing as I tell others

  August 7, 2018

  I always tell others that grief doesn't have a schedule. And that's true. I just want to move on, but at the moment I am nearly always in a state of high anxiety. Anything can set it off; anything to do with him, at least. Our pastor at least got me to shed a few…

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