Moonlight Musings: The Tale of an Alley Cat

About Me

Happy to make your acquaintance! You can call me Stacy. To the outside world, I'm a psychologist and scholar, but my inner world is riddled of literary quotes, collage art and verse. I've earned 5 degrees in Counseling, Psychology and English Lit. In 2014 I put my career on hold so I could remove my child from public school and homeschool her myself. I have been educating her since then, we are now juniors! Now in my early-forties, and after several traumatic events, I have decided to free myself of the constraints of a career and a formal 'job.' I have opted for an 'early retirement' as I have plenty of informal job titles already: caretaker to my ailing mother, educator, and I've become a pretty good cook. I intend to spend the rest of my years in comfort as a stay at home wife, mom, gardener, poet, artist....and whatever else my imagination can entail! I have embraced minimalistic living. I romanticize my life everyday. My existence now is one of peace and gratitude. I am a 'loner' but I am never alone! My reading room houses thousands of books and hundreds of dolls (I collect both). I created this blog as a space to record the things I love in my personal downtime. I adore the arts, tarot, poetry, books, and life! I enjoy walks in the dark, moon bathing, collage art, and dreaming. I practice yoga, read my runes, write in my journal, surround myself with candles and chant the verses of Plath (not really the last part, but it does sound romantic, eh?) I love creating art with Photoshop Elements, you can find links to to some of my galleries in the links bar at the top of this blog. I have been working with Paintshop Pro and Photoshop Elements since 2009. I adore creating original photo manipulation, I feel each artwork is a world all it's own. I create scrapbook pages to preserve my memories and better explore myself. Art has served a therapeutic form of expression for me over the years. I have been writing poetry since the tender age of 14. My earliest poetic influences were Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath...I adored one for her simplicity, the other for her dramatics. I also adore Anne Sexton and the lyrical poetry of Ani DiFranco...these (and other great women poets) have served as fine instructors for me over the years. I hope I at least do them some justice. I put all my daily practice writings (by me) here....enjoy reading! Be gentle though, I bruise easily.

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Monday, October 28, 2024

The Tale of an Alley Cat