Latest / Dits & Dahs / not stressing the well with the curtain twitchers
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- Sue: Recently I stressed my well in doing a load of laundry, just due to the fact that the weather conditions here are dry enough that the aquifers lower them where the well is. It happens occasionally. And you know, as a sidebar to it all, we had a couple of days earlier it gotten about a couple of inches of rain, so it seemed odd that it would the well would be stressed. But nonetheless, when these things happen, in my household, it's a matter of shutting off the power to the well pump and waiting for a few hours, a day, whatever it's gonna take for that aquifer to refresh. And it's that period of liminal space that your anxiety starts to crank a little bit because will it refresh? How long will it take for it to refresh? And while you're sort of twiddling your thumbs, even though you've got other stuff to do in my case, there is a low level stress about the well being stressed. Thankfully, I had a date to go visit my neighbors for a meal that had already been on the books, so it gave me the opportunity to actively and positively release my stress by hanging out with my neighbors and sharing a meal. So I arrive and I get ourselves settled in to the gathering and they one of my neighbor speaks and says, You know, we we got together last night to hang out and we started reading your blog. And we think we should have a session where you come and read like a poetry session and you read your blog entries to us. We're subscribers now, you know. It's got me giggling for the sake that for you who are listening to this content, you're finding this as organically as YouTube is giving it to you. I'm not necessarily a a personal connection to you, nor do I make a big deal to the personal context but I have a bl I share my email address with them and it's clear from the domain and it's my website. So the fact that they were interested and enjoying my blog is a bit of a delight for me. So I wasn't put upon it spontaneously to to recite my own blog post, but it's the power of understanding that when you let things happen organically, people will learn about you. And if if you've ⁓ posting your mundane utterances each and every day, huh? Your neighbors don't have to ask how I am anymore. There's no excuse for them to ask that question. I've spoken before about The insidious nature of asking somebody how you are, and I admit that my whole life that's been a greeting of mine. It's a very difficult habit to break. But once you understand that it's potentially an opportunity for someone to manipulate your energy by siphoning your vibe just because they're asking you how you are, puts you at a spiritual and energetic disadvantage. You might not want to give them your energy. So I have resorted to training myself To greet people with a statement like, It's lovely to see you. Nah, greeting is initiation of a good vibe, and you're gonna receive a good vibe. If somebody is asking, How are you? They're requesting to siphon your energy, and that's never a good vibe. You know, and sometimes in response when somebody asks the question, I try to have a sincere, genuine, great, all's well, or excellent, or something of that nature. Still true, but it's the Hm, a strategic sort of defensive response to fend off the siphon. It's these little little moments of people around you that are mining for information about you. That's none of their business. I mentioned this in other blog posts about, you know, there is a proper way to in my view, to approach people and that's by observation and taking it all in and then making a making some mindful comment about something that acknowledges you're observing them and being genuine. Something something that takes care without being intrusive. And now of course I know that there's a chance that my neighbors who are jokingly wanting to set up a poetry session with me reading my blog post are also listening to this. Hello neighbors. I love you all. Tickled pink that they're that they're enjoying on some visceral level and engaged with my my blatherings, my utterances. And I appreciate I appreciate the time that you all, collectively, whether you're my neighbors or not, are enjoying this. Thank you. Thank you for that. You know, as a musician I'm trained and instinctively wish to engage with people and communicate nonverbally and that's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing to see that you can create something that is nothing more than your chatter about the day's events and to have a connection with people you know, who like you are independently viewing this and listening to this content. For those that are listening to the audio on Apple Podcasts, there is a YouTube and Spotify video version. It's exactly the same audio, just mi paired with video that I shoot to c accompany it. Not necessarily of me on camera, but nature settings and such. If that's of interest to you to add a little more dimension to your listening experience, check it out. And if you do like my neighbors do, I call them in for the the full breakfast. Not the continental or the American. If you're doing the full breakfast of my utterances, you visit my website, or you can read the poetry that my neighbors call it that accompanies the videos, that are primarily just audio. Either way I'm grateful. I'm grateful to have this different layer of connection to my neighbors that might not necessarily mean they're daily readers or listeners. That's not the point, neither are you. Right? Nobody's asking for your fealty with undying devotion and commitment to make sure you read every utterance I write or or speak. But I'm grateful for the occasional stopping by. And I'm grateful that you find it entertaining, 'cause that's what it should be. And I'll tell you the way the algorithm works with you two. My videos, because I create them, end up showing up in my own viewing feed. So what an echo chamber. I mean I'm already listening to my voice as I'm speaking, as I edit it. As I finalize the edit, as I review the video, just to double check everything is hokey dokie. So I don't need to have it coming up in my feed, but that's the way it works. So thank you. Thank you, neighbors. Thank you, friends yet unmet, for stopping by and having a look and listen. That type of engagement just resonates with motivation and inspiration to continue. And I appreciate that. Because when it comes time that I end up stressing the well again, I've got plenty of displacement activities to keep me happily occupied. Feeds on itself, you know. So thank you for that. I appreciate you. What a beautiful fox. That's six fifty three. Easy does it. Easy does it.