Category: Pearl

(Friday, 10/30/20) (This poem was inspired by the Charles Wysocki print at the bottom of this page.) Rise at the break of day, tiptoe passed the master’s way; find my way down darkened halls,  to the kitchen, my own four walls. Brew the coffee, toast the bread, sizzle the bacon, break those eggs. Quietly though,… Continue reading The Milkman and the Maid

(Wed. 10/28/20) Child predators are rarely recognized for what they are.  They have an act they perform that make them appear as benevolent citizens of society. They earn their potential victim’s (and usually their family’s) trust with calculated kindness before they make discretely insidious malevolent moves.  This is called ‘grooming’ .  They build trust so… Continue reading Predatory Groomers

(Mon., Oct. 26, 2020.) I just returned home from Onsite Workshops in Tennessee.  Onsite is a beautiful, safe place where some of the best therapists in the country go to lead various programs that help people improve their quality of life and/or relationships.  They offer six day workshops with different themes, four day individual or… Continue reading I KNOW . . .

(Alas, the beloved beings this is about have since gone onto their feline Heaven.  This was originally written during their lifetime.) Who says you can’t give a cat a bath?  Two of my felines get bathed twice daily.  Of course, I’m fairly certain we’d all rather suck lemons instead but it is doable; tolerable if… Continue reading The Cat Caper

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Some of the effects of what my mother did still linger in spite of years of various therapies. Don’t  get me wrong, I’ve come a looooong way. It recently occurred to me that in addition to the dysfunctional behaviors I’ve been working on there are now new ones cropping up, which… Continue reading Real Love

Monday, October 19, 2020  How Little Pearl (LP) was nurtured?  First of all, I do know there were positive moments and blessings within my family. There were good times with my mother, although I have difficulty remembering them. She always packed lunches for school until we were old enough to do it ourselves, had a… Continue reading Mom, Pearl’s Years

There was a distinct vision of how this blog was going to be set up and ran, and here we are, only in the second week and it’s already blown.  There were posts written and in the queue, but something much more urgent came up that I feel compelled to address. I had the honor… Continue reading A Plea

10/14/20 Cast of Characters In My Mind Have you ever heard of dissociation? It’s actually a spectrum and almost all people haveexperienced it to one degree or another. On one end is ‘highway hypnotism’. That’s when aperson is driving and gets to their destination safely and on time but doesn’t remember everymoment of the route.… Continue reading Dissociation

Mon. 10/12/20 HI! I’m Pearl, pleased to meet you!I hope you’re doing o.k.?I’d like to tell you a bit about this blog . . .I have a lot to say and since I’m not all that socially adept or verbally eloquent at this point in mylife, writing it’ll be. (I firmly believe God gave me… Continue reading Hi, I’m Pearl.

Hi! My name is – well – proper names are not important here. Who we are is, though, so I’ll just describe myself as a beautiful-warrior-princess-guru-dog-blessing. Yeah, that sums me up well. Even though my heart technically stopped beating several weeks ago (from when this was originally written) I still have one last pearl of… Continue reading Beautiful’s Story