A Blog by Adrienne Wallace

The only problem we ever have with now is that it is not about us as we are defined. We are defined by our fears and our maddening resistance to change. That is the problem with now. The problem with now is that it requires thoughts outside of ourselves. Imagine it is not about you. What would now look like when we acknowledge that it is not about us? The problem with now for many of us is that we do not see NOW we see past. NOW is when we need to ask ourselves, "What does the past have to do with today?" The problem with now is that it requires that we look at ourselves for cause and not blame or depend solely on others that we feel are different than us, obligated to us, or most comfortable to us. We drive through life most times viewing the things and people around us as the cause of what is wrong with now. We put them as a problem in the view scope and as the object in front of us. We grab blame energy instead of motivation and inspiration from things. We trip over the...

I am starting a series of Blogs this month which are writings that I have decided to call Truth Serum. My hope is that we end up with a number of them to which folks can relate. Drink some and feel free to share your thoughts on how it may please or displease you pallet. I'll serve glasses that are large and small. Take in what you can. * By the way, I write poetry under the pseudonymn of Spirit Child. Here is one that I wanted to share to open the series. Happy May! Hard Pill to Swallow!© YOU get wrapped up, caught up, out to pursue something new because the old skin that is you, YOU want to crawl out of. Preoccupied with something so outside of YOU YOU crawl over, on top of, up beside skin you don't know because YOU would rather have someone else touch YOU than touch yourself. Rather be in their environment than find comfort in your own. YOU are uncomfortable and their place, their facades, it makes you forget YOU have to deal with YOU YOU lie Because you think no one b...