Filosofa’s Famous Snarky Snippets! — Filosofa’s Word

It’s hard to focus on a single topic these days, as there are so many things pulling our attention, demanding a voice in our heads!  I’ve been working on two posts for over a week now, but every time I get back to them, I seem to veer off on some other tangent.  I will […]

Filosofa’s Famous Snarky Snippets! — Filosofa’s Word

♫ Beautiful ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

I was looking for a Rolling Stones’ song I might not have yet played, but found none that I particularly liked.  So, I switched to Gordon Lightfoot and found this one that I have always loved … don’t know why I haven’t played it before!  But … I found naught more than a brief mention […]

♫ Beautiful ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

Removing negative emotions! – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“In a materialistically oriented world there isn’t much understanding of the workings of the mind. What’s necessary is to recognise the trouble caused by negative emotions and that we can develop antidotes to them. The antidote to fear and anger is compassion.” His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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Fragments from the Crypt

The Twisting Tail

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds.

Coleman Dowell

Funneled spouts of premonition
sweeping nuances in motion
Forecasts in magic cognition
The proof of truth a bitter potion


Decisions are commitments to predictions of the future


Faustian      fragments
Conjured       playthings
Temporal       favourites 
Mastery       revealed 


The darkness of a hooded figure
The dust in my neighbour’s eye
The centre of a swirling enigma
The place where men come to die


There are any number of futures but only one past


Cushion and needle
The thread will need

To bleed and end well
Feel the fabric plead


I have come to the woods to lie in wait
Carrying the body against my breast
I bow down with the bluebell’s fine tendrils
Seeking where the night winds find rest


A silent stranger
Devoid of fear
I step back

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Depression at Work: Is it You or the Job?

MiddleMe

Undeniably, work can get too much to the point that we become too stressed about everything. It would feel like everything is not going according to plan, and everyone around you is not cooperating or honestly pissing you off. The current market and social conditions can even add to your workplace woes. Once you feel this stress, it will likely bleed into your personal life and cause further problems for you to deal with.

However, there is a growing trend in many workplaces nowadays that shows a significant number of people who are not just suffering from work stress but from workplace depression. Workplace depression is a severe mental health problem because it can disable you from performing well, working with others and being true to yourself. If you leave it untreated, it can trigger severe health conditions that can lead to death.

When studies dug deeper to determine its…

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Writing Process Wednesdays, and, Plot vs. Character

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Well, now I know where I stand on that famous debate, even though I was trying hard not to take sides while I plotted out my novel as I thought I was also getting to know my characters at the same time.  Wrong.  I find, personally, that it takes writing some scenes and bits of dialogue over and over again for me to understand how each individual character feels, behaves, speaks, and changes over time.   

This makes planning out such a complex novel as Who By Fire much less simple than I had imagined, and I find that it seems to be, currently, beyond my writing skills.   I continue to work on honing my craft, of course, and to work on plotting out this novel, while remembering that it         whobyfireiwilltmpcover

comes based on all of my prior work.  Also, having the very positive experience of writing…

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