12. Informed, yet Twitchy

"My desire to be informed, conflicts with my desire to be sane."

Lotsa work done, family home from hospital, let's get back to Rachel Sophia's roses. What, or who, did that? Also, is respectful disagreement, with the COVID-19 vaccine, possible? Foster care, and asking Adult and Family Services for a home, as a kid. Also, indicators on what predators do, to entice victims, exampled in recent media.

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GENERAL NOTES AND LINKS MENTIONED THIS EP:

Violence against women is something to study, to improve circumstance. This is from the World Health Organization, 2012, PDF document. offering more insight into Femicide, and how complex this is contextually.

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/77421/WHO_RHR_12.38_eng.pdf;jsessio

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"Twelve-step programs are mutual aid organizations for the purpose of recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions" -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program

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Dan Savage is an author, a sex-advice columnist. His recent podcast, gave voice to a woman, who agrees with Savage much of the time, yet the COVID-19 vaccine? She ain't gonna get. Can we give grace, to disagree? [I struggle, mightily].

https://www.savagelovecast.com/

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Tara Brach teaches Buddhism, with Western perspective. She discusses the spore as metaphor, and perhaps a tree or two. Here she discusses silence, as a gift.

https://www.tarabrach.com/gift-silence-quieting-mind/

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India faces devastating consequence from COVID-19, and we grieve. Recent update [India Covid Cases Surpass 20 Million, Deaths Top 220,000 - Bloomberg press]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_DOjmy7vi4

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Jesus -

Between ages 12-30, we have no written record of where he was. The missing 18 years. Jesus is educated during this missing time, and he learns to read. Here's singer John Prine's perspective on the subject, John Prine {RIP} - "Jesus The Missing Years":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvGO9rj1Zo

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A few comedians mentioned:

https://www.mariabamford.com/

https://www.jackiekashian.com/

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This is the House on Valencia Street. This is a place where ghosts and psychics, with PTSD, exist, and I'm talking about it. Share time with a rare survivor, walking back to haunted rooms and space being claimed from long ago. This is from the survivor's perspective, communicated as I see fit, in a way that feels right, for me.

I do not offer advice here, I share what worked for me. I am not a professional therapist, this is just one case study, one perspective. Please seek professional help, if mental health issues need attention.

Language is explicit, Content Warning / Trigger Warning: ghosts, psychic ability, rape, incest, foster care, murder, emancipation, BDSM, therapy, lightning strikes, personal responsibility, Buddhism, recovery, codependency, domestic violence - and inappropriate humor, most likely.

Picture inset: This is me, so many years ago, standing in front of my mother's Impala, and the House on Valencia Street.