It takes a fine balance to stand this tall facing life's "lessons"

THEY BURNED WOMEN LIKE ME AT THE STAKE LONG AGO.

 

So it should come as no surprise that I was burned -- as in Burn Notice burned -- out of my career in these purportedly modern times.

 

I recall when I was going through the worst of that dread part of my life, feeling like I would lose my sanity and, in that state, do unspeakable, damaging things to myself or others, my Beloved Boyfriend uttered, 

Only justice will make it right.

 

Still today I suffer Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder effects from that prolonged, systematic, yet absolutely personal attack and abuse.

One of the worst is that I walk through this world I love, interact with people I care profoundly for at a spiritual level, and I seem to trust … but I never trust. 

 

Perhaps I will never trust again.

 

Perhaps few of us ever truly trust ... we are so guarded against being burned.

 

The real problem preventing our proper healing from hurts is that there seems to be no justice.

 

Battered but still breathing

 

Sometimes I feel I can't breathe. Only sometimes. Despite everything, I am happy to be alive and be just who I am. If more people could feel that way, there would be less need for justice in our world.

 

How? It is a basic, fundamental, natural magic kind of fact about human beings:

People who love themselves simply do not try to hurt others.

 

In fact, what they do try to do is NOT hurt others.

 

There is massive irony in this: the things about us that most makes broken people attack, are the same things that save us from going mad under those attacks.

 

So can you wish those things were not a part of you? I say, “Nay!”

 

I do so hope when you touch the links to my other blogs (below), you'll realise each most recent post deals particularly with carrying on in the face of challenges.

 

Come Covid; come cutthroat connivers posing as capable authorities; come sometimes wishing to turn into a cold-hearted killer, breathe through your woes and carry on into some good and productive work.

 

That’ll keep your head on. That will help focus the inner fires.

 

Peace, love and peppersauce

 

You can break, or you can break away and reach for bluer skies.

Linking is the way to go

Politics is for before election. Governance is for after. Perhaps those in power fail to live up to that because they forget what patriotism is for. Read more: Patriot: fact or act?

 

It’s easy to “fly the flag of our fathers” when everything is honky-dory and worth celebrating, but isn’t it more important and needed when challenges are the order of the day? Read on: Flagging love for my land

 

Immunogenic is the way to go to combat endometriosis AND Covid besides. Read how: Breath, Aye, Immunity

 

Breathe and take a break. Simple advice. Simple plan. Engage!

Read: Happiness breaks heal all how

 

PHOTOS© by: Jhaye-Q Trinbago Photography

 

 

There's adversity. That's life.

Some people act like, "No, not for me." But come on, really now?

I think anyone who takes that perspective is saying other people don't matter; that whatever pain, strife, fear, undoing persons outside themselves are going through means all how zero.

"What's it got to do with me?" then.

 

The bulletproof people

Only fools can't see. I mean, it's like those who are destroying the planet for all of us, but benefiting monetarily from it: they seem to think that because they are not currently suffering the floods, the droughts, the famine, the lack of potable water, it means they will never have to reap the whirlwind of an utterly devastated planet.

There's been A LOT of selfish excrement going on of late. And I'm shocked that there are still those who act all "I am bulletproof."

Covid doesn't care what colour you are! 

And who the hell are the people most adversely affected by "hotter" sunlight?

My point is we need to get real when we consider our worth and our vulnerability. Anything, anything at all can hurt any of us, regardless of our super high opinions of ourselves.

Be human, live human, treat others like humans.

Treating others like humans means reaching out to help how you can; hence why I created a blog aimed at empowering women suffering under endometriosis. In my latest posts (ABC Endo: A Trinbago Survivor's Guide) I make endo-copers aware why they are at high risk for Covid-19, something no one else might be alerting them to.

Treating others like humans means standing up against oppression and the spreading of hate, as I tried to do in my posts centred around George Floyd's murder and reactions by people holding variant perspectives (Trinbago Come Good).

Treating others like humans means especially never forgetting each person's potential to be taught betterment, to be connected with and to learn to aim for higher in self, words and deeds (Trinbago Shine On).

I hope reading these posts will help you be stronger, wiser, fuller; to have heart and to have a heart. 

I blog because I'm human. I blog because I know, so are you.

Peace, love and peppersauce!

Blog, rest, repeat

Many women experiencing endometriosis pain have said it feels like being unrelentingly devoured by many feeding creatures

Ignorance, not bliss

Imagine what it must be like for the millions of women who do not have a clue. Consider:

• There is severe constriction of freedom of information on endo, that could empower women to protect and capably care for their mental, physical and emotional well-being

• There remains very little proper medical support and help; thus leaving women to suffer from the stresses of endo, that often result in an inability to earn a living and pursue a productive life, including motherhood and a family

• There continues to exist total constriction of reproductive rights through often unnecessary removal of ovaries and/or womb

• It has been proven that lack of assistance can result in severe debilitation … and even death

Help a touch(screen) away

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

At times Media is reflects society. At other times it should work to see and show things in fresh and surprising ways.

“Only the educated are free."

I invite you to hit the link, and welcome to The Jhaye-Q Brew Archive

This banner from a 2019 San Juan Kiddies' Carnival band full-on expresses what I still believe about my nation. Bad press be damned.

“... this blog aims to ... show life and my nation, with more emphasis placed on sight than merely insight.” – Jhaye-Q Baptiste, notes from a recent post

“... this blog is more than a window to my land. It is a searchlight into the soul of existence.” – Jhaye-Q

“Listen, I am aware of my world, and most times I walk around conscious in it. That is to say: I know the world is there and I know that I am here.” – Jhaye-Q Baptiste

I invite you to hit the link, and welcome to Trinbago Shine On

Life resonates with visual metaphors. Like in this image we see our human needs to go in a different direction from others; to stand still though the world is rushing by; to sometimes hold back and let people make their own moves on their own terms.

In every society around the world there are those who just stand out. Sometimes home here, even when the individuality is good and worthy, attacks can be launched at such folk simply for being true to who they are. Here's to hoping in this new year we aim for 2020 vision at heart, soul and spirit level, then express our wider perspective at mind and body level.