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This was posted on my FB account early January. Learning that my estranged son had passed, the exacerbated by multiple risks that ended in rejection, including being ejected from a D&D group with the "your really nice, we like you, but you just don't fit" that has been  theme of social risk taking, kicked me into a muddy hole with sheer rock face walls, I am still trying to climb out of/wallowing in, so reposting here to remind me. Setting goals and rereading them give me one more handhold on the way up; I may not be back to the top, but I keep climbing. A few years ago I owned a book called "Not Buying It" It's premise was that our culture encourages us to consume as a substitution for true happiness. The family spent an entire year focusing on valuing who they were and what they had not buying things and not buying the premise that more is better. It made sense me and I did my best for an entire year to live up to that philosophy. Somehow in the 12 yea...

  Good Morning, Its Sunday Jan 22, 2023 and 7:41 my time, which is Arizona, USA.  Arizona refuses to adapt. 105 years after Daylight Savings Time was introduced, it still refuses to acknowledge its existence, so in the winter I am living in sync with those who live behind the Zion curtain (Utah) and in summer I live in sync with the progressive site of my favorite RPG Shadowrun (Seattle).  Luckily Arizona accepts the Gregorian calendar along with the rest of the United States.  However I am currently an attempted Jew, which means for me it is also the 29th day of Tevet 5783.  My Jewish name is Yehudit Maryam, a gender dubious name most often associated with boys. My name and the one on my driver's license is Joanne Marie, a shortened version of my baptized name Giuseppina Annamaria; my grandparents way of feminizing Joseph, my grandfather's name. I was the third girl in four years, and his name needed to be honored. This hand wave my being an important part of m...