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Good morning my trunkies! I slept well which means I woke up early. Now it's just me and my coffee in the sun room watching the world wake up. This is the most quiet and peaceful I have felt in a while.
What's everybody else doing to find a lil bit o equanimity and goodwill before they go back into the fray? #sitTogether
Me? I’m just watching the rain out the window and debating starting a new #crossstitch project.
I want to be grateful for this time away from work but I also really miss having meaning in my day and being able to help people. It’s a weird kind of melancholy.
I'm actually gonna do a bona fide sitting meditation for #sitTogether instead of just drinking tea and staring at trees.
Join me if you can! Or join me later, when you read this toot. What is time really? There's no time within our interbeing, only Love (and maybe farts, there's probably farts)
@lonelinesscorps
The thing I struggle the most with loneliness wise is my cognition. I often just don't have the words for banter and especially miss having deep chats on a variety of topics. This is particularly frustrating when I am physically isolated and online stuff is my main way to connect.
I long to be in a room full of people all quietly not talking, just being physically present.
Not an answer to your question, but appreciation for your #SitTogether tag - I love, love, love the gentle "I'm here, this is what I'm doing, and I'm thinking of you all. If you would like to join me in the quiet moment, please do". 💛
It's dull and grey this morning, so am sitting in front of the full spectrum light.
Still doing lots of digesting and wordless processing in my world.
Pull up a sunbeam (artificial or OG) and join me for some quiet soul restoration. #sitTogether
@vlrny Lying on the soothingly solid floor on a yoga mat, on a heating pad, and just breathing for a while. Samarkar the dog is lying nearby and Wimsey the cat is a tidy loaf on my computer chair. Harriet the cat is on guard duty, watching the squirrels and birds. #sitTogether
Excellent article on loneliness, not just on the support and social aspect, but the problems with not feeling you have any control.
“Loneliness has always been explained as a deficit in the satisfaction of one’s communion or relational needs,” Ybarra says. “But in addition to communion needs, individuals also need agency, personal control and choice, and not meeting this need should also affect experienced loneliness.”
@bjb yaaaaas!
The #sitTogether tag is one I started for sharing quiet moments, whether that's meditation or just sitting down and taking a time out from a mad world. A peaceful contemplative place to drop yer toots.
And I think #joinIn started as a place for folks to connect over what can be a really lonely time at xmas. It's nice to see that is expanding into any lonely moments. 💖
I am on another prednisone blast that hasn't given me the zoomies yet, but I am feeling more calm and clear and not constantly oppressed by discomfort, which is weird and novel, but nice.
My body has responded not by being inspired and productive, but by sitting and staring and digesting...
Well THAT happened.
("that" being a year long rolling disaster)
And some part of me is shifting through how I feel about that.
How're things going in your soul today? #sitTogether
This morning I sat and watched a squirrel, cradled in the crotch of some maple branches, give itself a bath. Like leg-up lick their own butt serious project. #sitTogether
I am sitting on a park bench watching two dogs play, and occasionally just run flat out across the field with such unrestrained joy. Is good for my soul. #sitTogether
Annie being fierce. (sorry for the cuss) Today is so so cold. I decided to use my gym equipment at home and do things I want to do. Maybe I will watch a light period drama film, and scan more photos. I'll have more of my quiche for lunch. Blowout my hair and put on make-up just because. #SitTogether
Good morning scritches on a brutally cold Sunday morning. I'm under blankets with a vibrating heat pad which has attracted the four-legged ball of fur you see below. 😻
Let's dream of warmth on a sunny day shall we?
My lil road-weary violet decided to bloom in the middle of a snowstorm, and that is hitting me with vibes of resilience and dare I say rebellion for my #sitTogether time this morning. 💪🧡
I'm seeing folks casting about trying to build their support systems, but not always clicking. Like the structures aren't there yet, lots of people are tooting out to crickets.
So this is a general call out pls share:
active tags (or groups) that are helping you connect and be uplifted
gaps or struggles ie "I can't find a tag/group for [ ]
any tags/groups you are trying to launch
Let's create and consolidate and enliven the tags we need.
@vlrny hey Valerie, love the sound of #sitTogether I’m often sat with a #migraine alone. Knowing others are having moments separate but together sounds perfect.
I’m sat just quietly with my breathing now. #spoonie
@vlrny#SitTogether Just relaxing this AM listening to the wind outside, feeling content and very grateful for central heat over the next few days especially.