I discovered a cure for rumination / echolalia / repetitive thoughts, etc :
When a phrase won't leave your mind, turn it into song lyrics. Record the song. Listen repeatedly. Now you have a song in your head instead of an unwanted memory! Magic!
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While laying on a cobwebbed cot on my roof on a sunny day, a friend sent a heartwarming text, telling me I'm an amazing woman who she admires, and that she misses and loves me. Out of nowhere. It made my year.
I am stupid about keeping in touch, so I appreciate friends who lasso me in, unprompted, because I love them far more deeply than my passive inaction may outwardly suggest. (It's never personal, I'm just always tired!)
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I dreamed I was carrying too many bags that someone left me with, in what resembled the ground floor of my building. Someone stole things from my bags, but I also got some free things. I was also carrying a turtle?
The next day (in waking life), someone stole things from my grocery bags within seconds of delivery (caught on video.) I still struggled to carry all the bags upstairs. (The delivery guy didn't bother carrying them to my door and left them in the lobby, a challenging carrying distance.) But I got one snack free. I later learned that my favorite takeout restaurant (which has "Turtle" in the name) closed that day, forever, without any public announcement!
Damn. My subconscious is really on point. Hungry too, apparently.
saturday - 2023-09-23