speak 2 make it out

 So I am… well… dealing with Microsoft CoPilot for the first time… and I hate it.  I’ll see if I can disable it.   That aside, I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this without sounding like an extraordinarily privileged cis white person. Here it goes: I have been wanting to talk about the overwhelm, the shock and awe that has been going on in the last few weeks, how we’ve been inundated with scary, infuriating things ro make us get overwhelmed and confused, and docile.  Small fires all over the place- which should we put out? I talked to my mother about it last night.  Only she doesn’t want to talk about it, and I should have stayed quiet.  But I really don’t have anyone to talk about it with.  And talking with her became an argument over how I’m trying to deal with what is happening right now instead of taking it to a horrible, devastating, and deathly end. And apparently I was wrong about that. Last I wrote, I was galvanized, and ready to tak...

I have been wanting to get back to free writing with a time limit.  Getting a prompt, write for 15 minutes, leave it as is.   I might edit later ones for spelling and sentence structure, but this is the first I've done in ages.  Just cracked open a book and pointed at a word (sort of bibliomancy), and began writing. SO, here it is:   Skill and Habit The velvety fuzzy ground is what I think of.  The empty auditorium, soon to be filled with folks.  I am on my back, stretching out my legs, loosening my voice with exercises.  I am lying in one of the emergency exit alcoves, dark, with velvety curtains hung over a too bright glowing exit sign. I sit up as others arrive, the actors coming from downstairs in their undershirts and corsets- all of the underthings before we put on our costumes and get fully readu.  Oh, and makeup too.  We are all doing a cacophony of waking up voice sounds, dancing around, stretching out before we go down and the ...