Dear @HenryX my friend,
Yes, I smiled at your response re story writing...
You praising my style and criticising your own....
Humans are so complex...
It is so easy to allow our mind to self criticise at the same time salute another's talents..
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I started rambling about my foggy childhood and the journey of medical labels....then thought....no I am not on here for that...
That is a great honour to present a commemoration of a traumatic time 55 years ago. Yes your point about forgiving over the decades and countries coming together is so relevant in any era..
Did you serve in Vietnam? Or is that a period best left alone?....Discussed within the safe realms of therapy...
You spoke about the fragility of peace...in so many areas...not just countries all over the world....within friendships....families....ourselves...
There is a fragility about humans which flows through to the fragility into many other areas.
Living in the now I practise and remind myself at times when my mind wanders back to pain or takes me forward to anxiety...
Writing whether about past present or future, for me is an exercise in an action which is living in the now....writing..
This is what I love about this thread....
This is why I continue to be here..
In the now, writing or reading responses from others...
I love each difference that we all bring to the table...uniqueness is another gift to be treasured and honoured...
Offering a part of ourselves in writing is so rewarding and so wonderful to receive...
For me, allowing my mind to travel is a sense of release.....freedom...from the pain in real life...
I realise that I now need to work hard at not worrying about keeping the thread moving...
That is not my role here..
My role is to contribute...offer words describing outrageous ideas....or are they outrageous in another level of existence....ha ha...
The image posted before my friend, Henry X , ....is Professor Henry X who you would like to be?
Or would you allow your mind to wander and give yourself your own name...a beginning of your contribution?
Back to the image...yes I do waffle on ...sigh....a sellkie fowlk with her alter the seal...
In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or selkie folk (Scots: selkie fowk) meaning 'seal folk' are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in folktales and mythology originating from the Northern Isles of Scotland. The folk-tales frequently revolve around female selkies being coerced into relationships with humans by someone stealing and hiding their sealskin, thus exhibiting the tale motif of the swan maiden type. There are counterparts in Faroese and Icelandic folklore that speak of seal-women and seal-skin.
My name within the story will be Selkie fowlk just to check randomly on your spelling skills ha ha..
Henry you will pass with flying colours as I know your proof read your writing...
My writing rambles from my mind coursing through my limbs down to my fingers out onto the page...
Selkie fowlk loves the sun and emerges during the day...nature of course where can be found...
She is watching quietly different folk and animal life along with other characters born from nature as in gumnut bub that come to life periodically....
This gumnut bub seems to be transported by an off looking object with moving legs....
Then there is a black cat with slanted green eyes that springs out without any warning....in front of her..
She quickly pulls back submerging not quite completely into the sea...
This creature amuses her as it does not seem to do anything that follows the animal law of survival...
What is it?
In another direction a human can be seen moving between trees using a stick to write on a piece of bark...
Another human carrying an insect....Do humans eat scorpions?
Then there is a bat? In daytime? struggling to lug a heavy bag with paper falling out everywhere....
Selkie fowlk sinks further back into the sea.....swimming away unnoticed.....
She surfaces elsewhere....
an old cottage set back on a cliff overlooking the sea..
a fire has been lit outside and the glow of the embers is noted....Burn.....ouch...
Selkie fowlk will wait for the sun to move higher in the sky and think about emerging fully from the sea....She will need to find a safe place where unnoticed she can morph into her female form hiding her webbed tail.....
💙 A blue heart for the magic that the seas bring to the world.....
@Appleblossom @HenryX @Adge @Flax @Shaz51
