PinnedMember-onlyI have always been weird, but learned to keep it on the down lowOn ESP, psychic gifts, and shamanism… Ever since I was a little kid, I was weird. I was drawn to science fiction and always interested in more spiritual books. I liked different things, I felt so much intuitively that my mother said I was a “witch” and that my big…Esp6 min readEsp6 min read
PinnedMember-onlyBeing used by God/the Universe/SourceI am sure that a lot of us feel that we are moved by God/the Universe/Source to do all kinds of things. …God4 min readGod4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyDaffodil in the graveyardI pushed up through the moist Spring earth.Poem1 min readPoem1 min read
PinnedMember-onlyMoving through time (growing older)It was pretty simple then. When the mannequins in department stores spoke to me, and helped me find my mother by pointing in the direction she had gone. When my tiny blue plastic mermaid slept safely on her cotton padding in a small white gift box in my desk at…Passing Of Time3 min readPassing Of Time3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyTable of Contents for my articlesHere is a list of my articles by category. This page is copied from Joan Gershman with gratitude. My Categories (in alphabetical order): Birth and Parenting You have to fill the empty nest… Or it is really sad. When my youngest kid went to college a few years back, it felt so WEIRD to be home with just my…lynnethompson574.medium.com Surrendering to Motherhood with my au pair’s help I met my husband a bit later in our lives. He was 30 and I was 32. I had been married 7 years before that, and it was…lynnethompson574.medium.comIndex5 min readIndex5 min read
May 3Member-onlyWe have to accept not knowing whyIt’s really hard when we lose someone close to us, or a friend loses someone suddenly. Grief can strip everything from us, our sense of security, our joy, our sleep! It pulls the rug out from us and we try hard to keep on going. After a while, we start…Grief2 min readGrief2 min read
Apr 22Member-only“Stinkin’ Thinkin’” — Time to stop either-or thinkingI grew up in an alcoholic household. I am the child of an alcoholic. My father was what you call a “functional alcoholic,” whatever the heck that means. But he lived to be almost 89 and was drinking until the end. …2 min read2 min read
Mar 20Member-onlyMemories and their keepersHow far back do you remember? Not sure how this happens, but at my later age, I look back and really remember things, things from my childhood, specific events, days that happened over 50 years ago. My earliest memory is when I was about 3 years old. We lived in…Memory3 min readMemory3 min read
Mar 1Member-onlyAn IT Tech Writer/Business Analyst in the WildI have over 30 years experience in IT, working as a technical writer, a process analyst, and a business analyst. Workflows are Us When I work with processes, I usually do a a flowchart to study the existing steps in the process (some call this an “As-Is” flow). I then study…Process Analysis4 min readProcess Analysis4 min read
Jan 30Member-onlyThere are ways to quiet our thoughts of regretWhen I was younger, I loved the song by Edith Piaf — “Non, je ne regrette rien” Edith Piaf had been through so much in her life, starting out as the child of a prostitute, raised on the streets of Paris, growing up to be an amazing singer, but she…Regrets3 min readRegrets3 min read