Posts Tagged With: “It’s Quiet Uptown”

Day 3636: Unimaginable

Yesterday, while I was rewatching Hamilton, I took special note of the word “unimaginable” in “It’s Quiet Uptown,” which shows family members dealing with an unimaginable loss.

I just found “It’s Quiet Uptown” on YouTube by searching for “unimaginable.”

When I was capturing the following images throughout the day, I hadn’t yet read some unimaginable news.

Then, right before I turned off the lights to go to sleep, I saw the unimaginable news: the death by suicide of the beloved Stephen “tWitch” Boss.

I don’t know why suicide is still unimaginable to me after all the years I’ve spent working with people’s emotional pain, physical pain, suicidal thoughts, and unimaginable traumas.

It’s still unimaginable to me that this man is gone.

For those who are dealing with unimaginable pain or loss, please call 988, Samaritans, 800-273-8255, or any suicide/crisis hotline.

Thanks to all who helped me create this unimaginable post, including you.

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Day 1508: A quiet home

Yesterday, I returned to the quiet home of my EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapist George after a long, disquieting absence. George and I talked quietly about how difficult it’s been for me to find a quiet home after the multiple traumas of open heart surgery, my pacemaker getting recalled, complications with the pacemaker replacement surgery, all the noise around the U.S. election, the loudness of my mechanical heart valve at night, and the fear and discomfort I’ve been experiencing internally and externally. During my quiet time with George, I realized I could create a quiet home wherever I am, by focusing on whatever helps quiet my mind and my soul.

Soon after that quieting session, I saw this:

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I’d love a quiet home, too.  How about you?

Can you see any quiet homes in my other photos from yesterday?

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While I was looking through windows of hope for quiet homes yesterday, I quietly heard this quiet music from Hamilton:

 

Thanks to all who helped me create  this quiet home today and to you — of course! — wherever your quiet homes are.

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