In Sedona

Yes.

At the stupa

Yes.

The colourful Tibetan prayer flags strung together

Yes.

Wha do they signify

    Really?  Again?

Yah

       Im a draghuh

No. No not necessarily.

                              They represent what you’ve had trouble all your life summonsing.

    That’s a hint, Dad.

Jesus baby I strike you as a Sherlock a private dick  able to take a hint

                                                                              Methinks not

Methinks?

               We’re treading some awfully deep water.

Deep

         And black

Awright awright. The flags at the stupa signify, hold onto your hat, compassi . .

. . Thas it

           Cant ever seem to remember tha

   For some reason.

Don taunt me

For some reason your troubled sense ofNo . . not troubled no sense of compassion.

                                                                                      You drive a hard bargain.

Blame your grandmother  Got tha from her

                                                  Compassion earned not doled out

Doled?

Yah

        Your compassion your empathy your mother

Curious wha we learn or do not learn from our parents

Compassion unrecognisedno way coud ever have setup housekeeping inside me

I have a wordwords for it

A word, words?

                    For your lack of it?

Yah

You’re killin’ me all ears.

Playin a sap

    A sap?    I think I know. Want to clarify?

Gullible

Easily swayed by sentimentality  Overly emotional  Naïve

Someone not sensible not strongwilled

    Foolish

Took you a bit to get ‘round to that. Had to bite your tongue.

he stuck his tongue out at her

                                 Ah I leed ing

No.  Your tongue’s not bleeding funny guy.

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Wanda asked me if I was a professional.

Sorryscuse me   A step back

                                 Wanda

I didn’t say her name was Wanda?

Id remember Not a common name if it is Ive not heard it often Ive met only one Wanda in my life

    You don’t watch porn?

almostalmost  took a breath

                              Thas a leap

Lotsa porn Wandas, Dad.

I did not know tha

Now you do.

Now Ill never forget

                       Acidetched in my brain

I didnt mean to interrupt

                              If you were a professional wha

Asked me if I was a professional empath.

An empath can be professional I thought tha was someone who empathises with others

Evidently people make money being empathetic.

No Shit   Didnt know tha

                              I imagine you thanked heryou werehad to be  somewha flattered

I was.

Anya are empathetic

You think so?

Know so

           Youve worked hard at becoming who you are You connect deeply with others however not at your expense

You have strong selfcare youre able to set boundaries you protect your emotional wellbeing

Ohmy.

        That means a lot coming from you.

he smiled

            Anya understand thas from your mother not me 

she laughed

              Says the guy who declares at every opportunity or whenever pushed, your compassion is hard won.

    You know me so well

Being empathetic you can tell me I can only assume  it can be difficultdangerous  Id say  absorbing others emotional energies experiencing both their positive an negative feelings

Dad.  That was a mouthful.

It was wasnt it

                   Am I accurate

Yes.  she gazed at him

                           You certainly have your moments.

he nodded

             I have moments

But theyre only moments

You should give yourself more credit.

I prefer humble

You?

he laughedhowled

                        I try like a motherfucker

Oh man, I walk into that?

Fraid ya did

               Were wanderin  Wanda

Yes.

       I told her I wasn’t.

She told me I ought to be. Then she told me she was a psychic medium. She said when I shared with her about Aniela that Aniela has total love for me, surrounds me, holds me in pure love, that I should know that, that I should never doubt that, she said anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they are talking about, they’re trying to hurt me for whatever their reason is.

You have been confirmed again

                                  An without pursuing it  Unsolicited

I like your yoga festival Wanda

    Shes not a porn star right

JEEZ.                                                                               

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Kendrick Lamar  Humble  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTRZJ-4EyI

. . . skinwalke . .

. . Sssh, you know you’re not supposed to say that out loud.

Because I would be summonsin . .

. . Sssh. Please.  Film scared the shit out of me.

You’re freakin’ me out a bit.

                               It was only a movie.

To you, to you maybe. I call it something else.

    Yee naaldlooshii?

What?

The film enthused me. My sister studied Native American culture, First People, in college, and collected a wide array of books. From one of the books, in Navajo culture, yee naaldlooshii is a harmful witch who has the ability to shapechange, possess, to disguise themselves as an animal.

It means “by means of it, it goes on all fours.”

rolling her eyes  Great.

Doesn’t that help?

No.

        If I have reason, and very rarely, to have to talk about it, it, I call it a flesh pedestrian.

she hadnt taken a breath   Flesh.   Pedestrian.

    Yes.

That’s original.   I have to hand it to you.

That way I can’t, it’s impossible, I can’t possibly summons it.

    Summons it. she rubbed the outside corner of her eye with her index finger   Summons.

Yes.

You’re a bit of a freak, you know that?

Maybe.    Maybe.

                     But I’m alive . . . and I’m not followed, not pursued.

Can’t say the same for you.

OhJesus.

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after beating him with the blunt object asana  she rocked him with a healthynear exquisite rightcross  grounding

            You remember how Aniela would do that?

When she went barefoot

Yes. I didn’t understand then why.

                                     We’d be walking and suddenly she’d pull up, stop, not say a word, take off her shoes, and we’d start walking again.

She didn’t say she was grounding.

I remember

She remembered that you told her when you were a kid, a teenager, you’d walk around, she said everywhere, barefooted.

I did A couplethree years during the summer  A high school kid

That’s what she said.

But I was only walkin barefooted  Barefooted

                                                 I wasnt grounding

    Or . or maybe . . maybejust maybe . . . . you were.

Thas a stretch baby

Or maybe not. Aniela believed, was convinced you were, though ignorant you were.

    Ignorant Yah   Im tha

                             Im confident Im more ignorant than not

I'd agree.

           Then there’s all those things you’re an absolute pain in the ass about. I can’t keep up with you and you just keep on keepin’ on.

Passionately.

Yah But we all enjoy things tha excite us incite us are accelerants

Accelerants.

                I like that, can I use it?                                                                                

Knock yourself out

                    I don own it didnt coin it

Anyone ever say that to you?

Not to me no

Maybe?

Who knows

               Make sense though

    I think you may own it.

If I do I didnt patent it  Run with it

I intend to.

So  your grounding experience was good

Yes. I thought of Aniela the whole time.

                                          It was like we were walking together

It was wonderful, a bittersweet treat.

Im a little jealous babe  Though very happy to hear

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grounding  https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-article/grounding-techniques-article