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Maybe she's born with it; maybe it's Lexapro! | Culinary Edition

It's been six months since Dr. R increased my daily Lexapro dosage, first from 5mg to 10, and then to 15 mg. I asked C if he thinks it's working and if I'm getting better, and he responded with a resounding Yes! "You're cooking again, so yes!" Yes, I've been cooking again, which, as I mentioned in another post , is so not me. Afterall, I do suffer from task paralysis and cooking is not just one task - it's a series of one tedious task after another, with dependent tasks complicating the process. For most of the past seven years or so, minus the first couple of months of the pandemic, I did most of my cooking via my phone: tap on a restaurant, tap on a meal, and tap Delivery . Wait for an hour. Serve food. But for the past few months, I've found myself slaving in the kitchen, trying various concoctions, praying we don't get food poisoning. The last time I had been in a chemistry laboratory I was 17 years old, still naive enough to think that...

Sketchbooks and life; sketchbook is life

I'm doing a major overhaul of my craft corner/home office/workstation, going through every bit of paper and journal and sketchbook, with the intent of keeping, discarding, and donating the supplies I have accumulated since the pandemic and beyond. I realized that my pandemic anxiety manifested itself in my restlessness and dissatisfaction, as evidenced by all these unfinished and (some) barely-used art journals and sketchbooks. Each one had so much hope and potential in the beginning, and somewhere along the way I fucked up a drawing, a sketch, a painting, and I gave up. A few pages on I tried again, fucked up again, and just got discouraged. Multiply that by about a dozen or so sketchbooks and you pretty much have an idea of how my life works. Fuck up, give up, try again. Rinse and repeat. There's a fine line between giving up and giving up for good, and I've been consciously avoiding crossing that line. Somewhere between these two frames of mind, there's a small windo...

Blessed Samhain

( This was originally a post from one of my IG accounts, la luna bruja . I'm writing an extended version here. ) References to the Samhain (Samhuinn, Sauinn) festival can be found in the earliest Irish literature from the 9th century. It was also around that time that the Western Church declared 1 November as All Saints' Day, which only goes to show that there is so much connection between Christianity and what is now considered pagan beliefs. God is universal - and so is the Goddess. When we call out to the Universe, we call out to God and the Goddess. When the Universe showers us with blessings, the blessings are are also coming from God and the Goddess. When the Universe saves our asses, we're guaranteed that God and the Goddess are looking out for us . We may call It what we want, God , Goddess, Universe, Allah, Jehovah, the Great Big Cat in the Sky, it's all One and the Same, giving us hope, bringing us fresh starts, teaching us love and compassion for everyone. ...

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