Month: May 2007

Not tonight, darling …

Tonight I had intended to write something deadly serious. About a subject that everyone would rather avoid, turn a blind eye to, a subject nobody wants to talk about. And that is abuse against women. I’m not talking about purely physical abuse, but more about other forms of abuse that constitute domestic violence .. including psychological and emotional abuse. And not just among the realms of domestic relationships either. About controlling behaviours.

But.  Tonight my very being was unhoused by music more poignant, a voice more beautiful, than Nick Drake’s. And I do not want what I am feeling to be polluted with thoughts about abuse, control and violence as it is at direct odds with the state I am in at the moment. For this exact moment in time, I have fallen in love with the music and my heart belongs to the voice, that voice…  My heart is beating faster and I am a little breathless and starry eyed. My soul is so deeply touched in a way it rarely ever is.And that is saying a lot… So … no … not tonight 🙂

Obsession

Tonight I feel compelled to write about obsession. You think you know where I am going with this … but you don’t hehehe 🙂

Yesterday I read a great blog written by Johhny Ska – Obsession. Johnny and Jimmy Ska are talented comedians who write a fair amount of insightful blogs. Some of them I don’t agree with, but this one really struck a chord. So then I had to re-read something in one of my favourite books … Eric Maisel’s “Coaching the Artist Within”. Then, of course, I had to spend some time online researching how it relates to gifted people, because I knew there would be people on here that would be interested in that. And lo and behold if there is not an article on the subject written by Eric Maisel on talentdevelop.com (a website devoted to all things “gifted adult”). Which, naturally, went over basically the same stuff as he did in the book. And so here we are.

I said it over at Johnny Ska’s blog and I’ll say it here. Too many people see obsession as being a purely negative thing. People think of the word “obsession” and invariably connect it with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or with stalkers. Clinical definitions of the word don’t help:

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Crotcheted bikinis, sand & salt, and a tiled bath


Summers at Terrigal. I don’t have a clue how old I was here.

Some of my most treasured childhood memories are of summertime stays at my Nanna and Poppa’s. They lived at Terrigal, on the Central Coast of NSW. In the 70’s, it was a tiny, quiet beach-side village with houses made of fibro. Now, of course, it is a much larger tourist mecca. Gone is the village feel. Now it houses multi-storey resort-style accommodations (sigh). Ain’t progress great?

Nanna and Poppa lived on a little street that ran off the main beach road. It was a steep street – a very hilly area. The land fell away from street level on Nanna and Poppa’s side so steeply that you had to go down cement steps to get to the front door. The back of the house was held up by tall stilts. That block of land was quite big, and to me as a child, it felt lush and rainforesty. Covered with trees and vines and morning glory and lantana. Even inside the house, it felt cool and shady because of all the greenery enveloping the building.

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Perceptivity and the gifted person

Lately … in case it hasn’t been obvious  … I’ve been operating on a pretty high frequency. Up and down with the ebb and flow of simply dealing with people. Either … I’ve suddenly lost all instinct I had in regard to people and their intentions with interpersonal relationships and interactions, or I’m becoming even more finely tuned in this regard and it is causing me to doubt what I thought I knew about me, about people, about what they want from me …

So I think of ‘perceptivity’ which was one of the five qualities listed in the initial ‘gifted series’ blog, ie the ability to see and understand people on different levels. What is hitting me at the moment is “The more discrepancy between the inner self and outer face, the more uncomfortable the gifted adult may feel.”

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