If this blog were a TV show, now would be the time for the following announcement: “This concludes the temporary blog hiatus. We will now return to your regularly scheduled programming.”
I’m still not back to my normal self, but I have started an antidepressant, and my anxiety has decreased a little bit as Oliver continues to settle in. [For the record, he’s still the cutest little man that ever was, even if he’s starting to test the limits as he gets more comfortable. Knocking my office supplies around my desk and swiping his tail across my face during work meetings are some of his new favorite pastimes.
Still, he’s becoming a cat, not just a scared little thing hiding at every sound, so I can’t really complain.]
I’m going to take the blog in a different direction for June, because first and foremost, I need to keep realistic expectations for myself as I continue working on my mental health, and secondly - it’s Pride Month!
My mother can vouch for the fact that I’ve always loved rainbows. In our old house, where I spent the first 10 years of my life, she had a collection of prisms which she hung from the kitchen ceiling. The kitchen was on the west side of the house, so any afternoon when the sun was shining, the walls and floors were covered in dancing rainbows. I loved to be in there.
I was also the kid in elementary school who got yelled at for taking too long to put the crayons away because I had to put them in rainbow order in the box.
As an adult, rainbows have another meaning to me - I am an outspoken, visible supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. I started to write out the ways I’m involved, but that got to sounding like I’m tooting my own horn, and that’s really not who I am as a person. If you’re interested in the ways I show up for the community or the list of organizations I support, just ask.
In honor of Pride Month, my love for rainbows, and my firm belief that all individuals have the right to be treated with dignity and respect and to be loved and accepted for who they are, all my posts this month will be in the Full Spectrum series and will feature one or more of my rainbow-colored models. Here’s a preview!
I’m still not back to my normal self, but I have started an antidepressant, and my anxiety has decreased a little bit as Oliver continues to settle in. [For the record, he’s still the cutest little man that ever was, even if he’s starting to test the limits as he gets more comfortable. Knocking my office supplies around my desk and swiping his tail across my face during work meetings are some of his new favorite pastimes.
Still, he’s becoming a cat, not just a scared little thing hiding at every sound, so I can’t really complain.]
I’m going to take the blog in a different direction for June, because first and foremost, I need to keep realistic expectations for myself as I continue working on my mental health, and secondly - it’s Pride Month!
My mother can vouch for the fact that I’ve always loved rainbows. In our old house, where I spent the first 10 years of my life, she had a collection of prisms which she hung from the kitchen ceiling. The kitchen was on the west side of the house, so any afternoon when the sun was shining, the walls and floors were covered in dancing rainbows. I loved to be in there.
I was also the kid in elementary school who got yelled at for taking too long to put the crayons away because I had to put them in rainbow order in the box.
As an adult, rainbows have another meaning to me - I am an outspoken, visible supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. I started to write out the ways I’m involved, but that got to sounding like I’m tooting my own horn, and that’s really not who I am as a person. If you’re interested in the ways I show up for the community or the list of organizations I support, just ask.
In honor of Pride Month, my love for rainbows, and my firm belief that all individuals have the right to be treated with dignity and respect and to be loved and accepted for who they are, all my posts this month will be in the Full Spectrum series and will feature one or more of my rainbow-colored models. Here’s a preview!
Be inclusive and kind, love your neighbor, treat others as you would want to be treated, and value the beautiful diversity of the human experience.
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