Quick Shadow post about my Johari’s Window exercise.

Ways people described me that I would not describe myself:
• brave, complex, dependable, energetic, observant, organised, reflective, responsive
• inflexible, insecure, cynical, distant, imperceptive, chaotic

Ways those make me feel:

Honored, humbled, insecure (lol), sad that as much as I try to connect that I still read as distant, and like the fraud police are going to arrest me for deceit in getting people to think I am organized and dependable.

Meme sheep go baaaaa!

Via flameandsong, I've been given five questions to answer and I'll give the first five commenters their own five questions.

1. What is your favorite kind of candy?

My favorite kind of candy is candy that I can have, so probably Lily’s semi-sweet baking chocolate chips. The sugary candy that I miss most is probably peach gummy penguins. Or those tiny gummy Italian mints that they used to have at nice restaurants in the 80’s. My aunt used to bring me some home from her dates when I was little but i probably haven’t had one in 30 years.

2. Favorite poem?

hmm. Probably either https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315 The Waking by Theodore Roetke or https://www.middleoftheriver.com/post/sometimes-a-poem-by-sheenagh-pugh Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh.

3. If you could be an animal for a day and then go back to human form, what animal would you be, and why?

A barred owl? An elephant? A house cat! I would like to spend most of a day napping, utterly relaxed, then zoom around a house and jump 5 times my own height. Birds are too high strung for me to enjoy flying, and they have too many natural predators. Elephants have poachers. But these tiny babies are spoiled as hell.

4. Favorite gemstone?

Labradorite and aquamarine are favorites. I used to have a star rose quartz, that was So Freaking Pretty, but I gave it to a friend when he was moving away, bc he needed a reminder that he was cared about more than I needed another shiny thing.

5. Least favorite season, and why?

Winter. It used to be my favorite, too. But now it hurts and saps my spoons. I get less done, am more irritated /short with people, and generally enjoy myself less.