Last day-#HAWMC/WEGO wrap up

We are to discuss the things we loved, prompts we hated, fellow bloggers, what we learned, etc. like this pic of berries I ate earlier, I feel this really sums us up. Sweet & funny, bittersweet & raw, with sugar the medicine goes down easier, etc. I hate that I started late, & that on a few days I was too sick to blog, although I will be making them up, which thrills me. I loved the pick a page-pick a sentence & write about it...probably my favorite prompt. We got to be direwolves, & that was fantastic! I even really liked the haiku prompt & it fit perfectly with the day I had experienced. My favorite blogger by FAR is Nuria & her brand new blog Lupie Cave. I had met her on twitter & she got brave, started blogging, & her 2nd or 3rd blog she was one of the top 3 of 3! She is an amazing writer & has blogs in her native Spanish & one in English! She is a huge inspiration to me already. After years of hiding she has come out in a big, bold, brave way & I love her honest courage. I will keep around a few prompts, the book & haiku I mentioned, the word cloud, etc. I'm excited to keep going on my make-up missed days. Thanks WEGO for pushing me & helping me grow. You helped shake me up out of my rut!

 

Day 18 WE ARE DIREWOLVES...#HAWMC WEGO

Our starting point for today is to open a book (or in my case-my kindle, though I did open the book I was reading & turn the pages) & the first sentence you see to use that & free write for 15-20 minutes. My book is the first Game of Thrones books...full of epic battles, love, loss, dragons, knights, power, the throne, kingdoms, flaws, strengths, strong women, smart men, etc. All the things you could possibly want from that genre, with a bit more. Oh, & direwolves, violence, & wildlings. ;)

'She's not a dog, she's a direwolf.' I immediately go to the 'but you don't look (or sound as I was told recently) sick' phrase all of us invisible illness people have heard at some point. We may look like a normal wolf, but we aren't...we are direwolves. We are different. Stronger. Smarter. More intuitive. I've met so many of us who seem to have or have gained these qualities from having these illnesses. We may look like a wolf, but inside, we are special. We are stronger. We are direwolves. There are many minuses in being 'special'. I don't have to waste your time in listing all of them. I've learned though that we are so much stronger, tougher, wiser, & braver in being abnormal. We have the fire inside of us. We have the strength to be vulnerable. We are on the battlefield daily, & we have many, many scars to prove it. As one of my twitter friends says, we are chronically awesome.

Pic titled The fire inside

Finished reading my 2nd book!

Thanks to my kindle & the ability to read again because of ridiculous 'handicaps' I've finished my 2nd book in many years. It was a far cry from my 1st, Agatha Christie, but every bit as wonderful. Being able to get lost in books again has been so fun. People lose & gain all sorts of things with any longterm illness, & among things like living with my parents, not being allowed to drive, not able to cook much, buy my own groceries, get a normal haircut, wear makeup, & a million other things-small & huge-they add up to a level of grief that's humbling & humiliating.

I finished the first book of The Hunger Games & loved it-yes I'm 41 but her struggles to survive resonated with me in a way that's hard to explain. I watch & now read a lot of gritty things, & a lot of that is because I try & take mental lessons on survival from each story. For some it might be depressing-for me it's training. This pic is a photograph put through 2 apps & I call it the Teardrop Nebula. I think Katniss from the Hunger Games would love it & hate it-hating the emotion of tears & being weak, loving the clouds & stars out hunting in District 12.

 

I'm now reading (& halfway through) The Snowman & a tiny bit through book one of Game of Thrones. One a cracked detective in Norway, & the other a magical mystical world of epic fantasy. They too will be on my survival training guides ;)

 

The stars in my eyes hope-ebooks save me

After getting my beloved little Kindle, I have bought & gotten free a ton of books, as well as checked out ebooks from our library. Knowing how much I want to finish The Hunger Games trilogy, start the Game of Thrones series, several Nordic thrillers, a WWII true account, etc it gives me the silent knowing that staying around will include all of these magical adventures, & help take my focus away from the pain.

 

 

Map obsession

It first hit me when I was really young-reading a Winnie the Pooh book, & spending loads of time studying the 100 Acre Woods hand drawn map in the front. My apartments had retractable pull down school maps for curtains/blinds, & maps all over the walls. Now one of my favorite shows, Game of Thrones, has an incredible opening title sequence where you fly over a hand drawn map, while steampunk castles come up out of the ground.



I even bought a game/app that has you flying in a steampunk hot air balloon over a hand drawn map...that's how crazy in love with maps I am : )



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