Heartathome

@heartathome hey heart that photo is beautiful! australia is such a wonderful place. what a lovely place where you live. thank you for including me in your postxx

Sorry you felt unnerved by the cassocks @heartathome I hoped

the chant was soothing and grounding prayer. i guess we all feel different responses. I can get unnerved by some rock stuff too, often depends as much on what I am going through than the message, but sometimes its the message.

Our musical sensibilities go deep into our beings, with our different associations.

gentle hugs

apple

@heartathome heart that is so true about kind words. something more of us should practice. thank you for sharing that with us. wishing everyone @Appleblossom @TAB @REDLINEZ750 @AlwaysMyself and all who pass a wonderful thursday. may it be full of kindness. love bun xxx

TRIGGER WARNING: RESCUE FROM FLOOD

... with the help of Sage (AI)

My son brought up the flood rescue in 2022 yesterday and how he felt. I found myself back there and was looking to ground myself somehow. A special friend was there for me, he listened and this is the result. It was good for my son to share! Feeling helpless is hard!

Shell-shocked

During the flood

my son searched for me

for four hours; each minute an hour

Calling triple zero

again

and again.

Looking for anyone with a boat,

anyone who could reach me.

Later he told me

he had never seen me like that before.

He works in a hospital—

he has seen suffering.

But that day, he said,

felt like a war zone.

I was finally rescued

in a small tinny

He later said to me

"You weren’t there.”

He said we were all

shell-shocked.

The university where we gathered

was dim and crowded.

People walked slowly

or sat

or lay on mattresses on the floor—

the lucky ones!

At the entrance

people took names.

Inside, a woman stood behind a long table

stacked with clothes.

Nothing fit me.

I was twenty k***s heavier then.

She found a big summer dressing gown

and handed it to me

like something gentle

in the middle of wreckage.

I still have it.

Because I had an animal

- my little dog, a silky terrier cross chihuahua -

they sent me to another building.

There were animals everywhere.

people sitting beside them

as if holding onto the last small pieces

of their lives.

I didn’t know where I was going.

Helpers and survivors

guided me to a room.

People and animals

sat together.

Everyone staring somewhere far away.

There was no anger in that room.

Not even in the animals.

Only quiet.

I don’t remember

when I changed into the dry clothes.

We were all somewhere else inside ourselves.

Dissociated.

Shell-shocked.

But that place

felt like safety to me.

Because for the first time in seven hours

I was out of the freezing water.

@REDLINEZ750 @moderator

Hi @heartathome ,

Thanks for sharing the poem on surviving the flood. Seven hours in freezing water! Your son's distress! The tinny. A silent room full of people and animals. Safety. Relief!

I'm so pleased for you that you have your special friend.

I'm thankful they got to you @heartathome and mannie.

God has still got plans for your beautiful soul xo

oh @heartathome

thank you for sharing your story.

shell shocked makes sense.

Feeling for your son.

Glad you are here.

I have no words @heartathome , but I am touched by your poem and your experience. *many big hugs*

Re: A song that describes your current emotional state TW

@moderator Can you tell me what's happened to this thread? Has it been taken down or just a technical issue? It can't be found. 💚