i'm feeling very angry tonight as i watched my mother in law end her relationship with my husband, her son, tonight.
we were happily inactive, enjoying a distant but decent relationship with my in laws until they saw some christmas decorations and everything changed.
i spent two hours getting drilled on whether my husband and i celebrate holidays, to be told that my laws won't socialize with us anymore.
I'm sorry, Visitor1984, for this unfortunate turn of events.
Many of us have already dealt with similar years ago, yet it still hurts. Somehow, though, we have moved on through the pain, realizing that we, too, once behaved in the same manner. I miss my family and friends.
May you find peace.
it is a bad time to be awake;.
i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.
of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.
Thank you, LevelThePlayingField:
Your wit shines like a beacon through your well-chosen verse. Please, write more!
MissFit:
Oh, yes! A dream within a dream! So real, I believe that I'm "there"! Although in exaggerated surroundings, my recurring dreams center around my time pioneering in the Midwest (USA) and that attending conventions. Frequently, I am lost in a parking lot, on a street. The settings are surreal (as mentioned, "exaggerated") and waking up from the dream -- whether or not within another dream -- is often a letdown, while I adjust uneasily to the unpredictability of another day.
Not much control over our dreams, right?
I appreciate your comments on my writing!
it is a bad time to be awake;.
i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.
of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.
Thank you, MissFit, for your thoughts -- they are right on point.
Some is literal, some symbolic. Life can be a nightmare as we stumble along, awake, but wishing for the escape of sleep. Yet, during slumber, daytime realities seep into our "sweet" sleep, distorted and phantom-like. Please, please . . . let me wake up!
Then, our eyes open, we awaken to the good, bad, ugly. From our former faith? In large measure, yes.
Actually, what you wrote was great; my doodles here are superfluous.
Best Wishes.
many years ago i had only seen the third movie and had never seen the first two for some reason ,so i saw them on stan this past week and enjoyed every second of it.. their were even occasions i could see the gb being depicted in it s portrayal of the rc church... its 45th anniversary is coming up this week since it was first shown in cinemas.
what is your view of this trilogy ?
what were your fav .moments , comments made in the movies?.
I'VE GOT YOUR BACK!
many years ago i had only seen the third movie and had never seen the first two for some reason ,so i saw them on stan this past week and enjoyed every second of it.. their were even occasions i could see the gb being depicted in it s portrayal of the rc church... its 45th anniversary is coming up this week since it was first shown in cinemas.
what is your view of this trilogy ?
what were your fav .moments , comments made in the movies?.
THE GUN? THE CANNOLI?
CoCo, in Johnny Dangerously, the play.
it is a bad time to be awake;.
i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.
of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.
Thanks, Nancy Drew:
I'll take pizza, in any way, shape, form . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5wn5hfmeas.
Close captioning . . .
ah, yes, so mid-way through a conversation about work, a family member just had to say "oh, you know the memorial is tuesday april 11, so i guess you will have to schedule your work so you can make it right?".
i simply said "oh is it?
" and then went back to what we were talking about.. has anyone else had the pressure to attend put on them?.
Greetings, inquiring friends:
It's too painful to explain, in detail, publicly: it concerned the elders' misunderstanding of a legal matter involving me.
I could have stayed but was uninformed about my rights. If I had gone to another memorial, where the Bethel brother gave the talk, I would have been welcomed heartily. However, I would not have known the dismissal was unjustified.
The elders were afraid of something happening similar to what Blondie wrote about, i.e., a "scene."
ah, yes, so mid-way through a conversation about work, a family member just had to say "oh, you know the memorial is tuesday april 11, so i guess you will have to schedule your work so you can make it right?".
i simply said "oh is it?
" and then went back to what we were talking about.. has anyone else had the pressure to attend put on them?.
Several years ago, while a member in good standing, I was asked to leave the Memorial. I was crushed and went home. A brother from Bethel was in attendance at another local KH and, upon learning what had happened, said I was not the one who should have been told to leave.
it is a bad time to be awake;.
i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.
of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.
zeb, smiddy, and bobcat:
Thanks much for your thoughts and questions.
Re "shaken but never stirred," unbridled and unapologetic poetic license! I appreciated Perry's scriptural reminders of what I once firmly believed and felt. Yes, deliberate stair-step formatting (had to choose my words accordingly).
Best Wishes and sweet dreams!
