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(?__?) from Toms River, New Jersey, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Your hands read my body like a map
Your fingers tracing rivers on the landscape of my body
Sending shivers up my spine
My flesh on fire.

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Lorenzo Costa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I am a singer…in private. I’ve done karaoke twice, once at a bar, and once at a conference in front of about 5000 people, which was kind of nervewracking, but also sort of fun. I’d do that again, I think – if I ever get out of the house again.

I sing a lot, actually. It makes me feel good (although some songs make me sad and I have to be in the mood). Sometimes I make up lyrics to a tune that’s running through my head, even if there’s no music playing.  I sing along in the car and on the treadmill – usually I know the words, but sometimes I don’t, and I have some good mixed up lyrics on occasion. Some songs are hard to sing to but I do anyway – I don’t speak German, so Rammstein is a bit of a challenge – I had to sing with the lyric sheet and a translation to get anywhere close.

Since I do like to sing along, I don’t listen to a lot of death metal but most other rock, pop (mostly 80s), and punk is game.  Some of my favorites, many that I walk/jog to are:

Rammstein – “Links 2 3 4” and “Ich tu dir weh”
Talking Heads – “Psycho Killer”
Oingo Boingo – “Only a Lad” and “1984”
Disturbed – “Down with the Sickness“, “Indestructible” and “Inside the Fire”
Tears for Fears – “Mad World”
Rob Zombie – “Living Dead Girl” and “The Devil’s Rejects”
Blue Oyster Cult – “Black Blade” and “Harvester of Eyes”
Metallica – “Creeping Death” and “Master of Puppets”
Kongos – “Come with Me Now”
Lady Gaga – “Teeth”
Cat Stevens – “Bitterblue” and “Another Saturday Night”
The Clash – “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Violent Femmes – “I hear the Rain” and “Kiss Off”
XTC – “Dear God”

There’s a lot – this is just a small sampling.

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Ryan Obermeyer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

So many thinga that I have lost over the past few years,
While some were for the better, others had me shedding tears.
For almost everything I lost, another thing I found,
Perpetually balanced, keeping sane if not quite sound.

It’s true I lost my motivation for a while last year,
But in return new inspirations crawled into my ear,
They wrapped around my mind and wound their way into my brain,
Broke through the melancholy, chased away the fog and pain.

I never want to be again in crowded situations,
(and that should really not need any explanations).
I have a new found love of quiet, open empty spaces,
What I’ve lost in social discourse I’ve embraced in my own places.

I’ve lost some inhibitions and I’ve found an inner peace,
This back and forth and give and take has given me release.

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Fresko N.N., Foto Maurizio Fabre, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

It’s been tumultuous these many months. At times I felt adrift like in the open sea, treading water like mad only to tire and begin to sink…and there were times I just wanted to drift all the way down to the bottom. I’ve made it back into the boat: wet, tired, but happy to still be floating and in one piece.  Things can only get better, right?

Last year, and really the year before it, were like a roller coaster with highs and lows.  By the time 2021 rolled around I was so glad to be out of the nightmare of 2020 and I was more hopeful of the future, although more anxious too.  I’ve been fortunate to work from home, and I’m thrilled that this will continue in 2022. When I realized I would be home for more than a few months, I set up a home office (a much more proper one than what I had been making due with) complete with a rising desk and comfortable chair.

I haven’t eaten fast food since February of 2020 except once, just this past month because my oven blew up (literally – I thought it was going to catch my kitchen on fire)  and it was pretty gross, home cooking is so much better. And I now have a pretty decent home gym – all I’m missing is a lap pool.

Looking back over the year, there were so many ups and downs in general.

Up: the majority of the US elected someone sane.
Down: so many people believe the lie that the election was stolen, leading to the insurrection on the Capitol, which was the most horrific thing I think I’ve ever seen.

Up: the insurrection was unsuccessful
Down: the seditionists and insurrectionists are not all behind bars

Up: I got vaccinated and boosted and I’m still alive.
Down: so many people where I live are not vaccinated, and so many people, both where I live and across the country and world (including people I knew) caught Covid and were seriously ill (and in many cases died).   I don’t think we’re getting a good handle on getting through this pandemic – I think we could, and I hope that there’s not a mutation coming that’s going to take us back to the beginning of this, but I’m not sure how hopeful I am.

On a lighter note, because not all ups and downs from last year can be so traumatic, although many of them were…
Up: I grew my own tomato plants from seed (and had lots of tomatoes from them)
Down: tomatillos need two plants to produce fruit, unlike tomatoes.

So, what will 2022 bring?  I hope some good things. I know there will be bad, but I am, at least for now, optimistic – it’s got to keep getting better.

So here’s to a Happy New Year, and a better 2022!

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