Author: imbuedexperiences

I think the healthiest strategy to fight the rising cost of living is to fight the self and its wants and needs. When inflation happens, wages never keep up and the companies never drop prices back down despite the restoration of economies of scale. The only answer is to consume less. Grow what you can,…

I have a lot of restraint, believe it or not. I cherish my relationships with each and every person who is honest and remotely wholesome towards me. I also trust that people tend to have good intentions when they make a plan, but I also have a fairly good sense of the ill and the…

I desperately need a navigator right now. I don’t have proper support that most cancer patients have. I have to be my own navigator, and it really sucks that no single person loves me enough to be that person for me right now. My mother cannot be that person because she is vain. Her insistence…

Did you know that 1/5 Canadians is functionally illiterate? I suspect that figure has increased since 2009, when I learned it at the Glendon campus of York University. Functional illiteracy doesn’t mean you can’t read, it means you can’t perform what is expected of you with regards to literacy. Trouble filling forms is a good…

The point is lost on me. Oh yeah! Now I remember what I was going to say. People probably see me as absent-minded and out of touch. I’m definitely not in touch with most of my generation’s experience. I don’t have children, will never give birth, don’t know how to relate seamlessly and I tend…

Unfortunately, this isn’t the answer for me. It shakes me to my core to try to spend my way out of this crisis. While everything still hangs in the balance, I do my best to put a positive face forward. Today was a good day. A lot of chats and catching up with high school…

I’m up at the crack of dawn these days, even with the peen in my system. Pine, pronounced peen, is what I call the olanzapine they prescribed me to help with racing thoughts and all the shit I can’t control. I have taken it as prescribed, & I have not had alcohol since a 7…

Today started promptly at 5:50 am, as most spring days do for me. I had lots on my agenda as per usual, but today was highly productive in both self-care and future preparation. I got everything I wanted today. First, I knew the aquatic center opened at 6:00 am on weekdays. The morning was slow…

I’m one of those few elder millenials who is not over-leveraged. I’m used to living well within my means, and have sacrificed quality for function placing somewhat of an ascetic world view on my life. I aim to be minimalist and utilitarian. It’s been a successful strategy because I’ve managed to annually save about a…

There’s this epic battle for supremacy, and we’re all doing it. But as I Rage, rage, and think of omphaloskepsis – I’m also reminded of all the gifts I’ve been given my whole life. The safe place to land is no longer safe, and I’m nearly certain I won’t be able to stay in the…