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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

Dolphins are such beautiful joyful spirits - “glittering moving peaks” You capture the enchanting world beneath the waves through your poetry. Beautiful Mike! 🐬🐬🐬

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Em Wilson's avatar

That part about who decides what is sane. Once I worked as an ER nurse for over a decade. The "psych" patients I signed in were so tragic. So many medications and hospital stays, and they never got better. Yet continued to go to an empty well when dying of thirst. Many complained of thoughts or experiences I personally have had. But I learned young not to discuss these things with practically anyone especially authorities or doctors. I will never forget a Native teen brought in by his dad, for saying he felt and sometimes saw dark forces in his house. Admitted and drugged. I thought, don't they have shamans or something one would consult before this? I believed that young man.

I have been in healthcare fo many decades. It difficult to find ways to cope with seeing the mental and physical decline of the world, with also no one suggesting a spiritual solution may be in order. It would be so nice and so reassuring if one presented with these issues, to be told by a trustworthy source, where to look for answers. But that's not how it is here at all in America.

I can only be thankful for the inner nudges that had me reject certain ways of explaining experiences as well as guidance towards people or authors where I saw...some people have an authentic expressive talent of sharing a very different truth.

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