Overcoming Conflict

Survival is about overcoming conflict—for instance resolving differences regarding food and energy sources, freedoms, and ways of being.

Some things are worth fighting for. Others are not. Each of us must decide when to stand up and when to stand down, when to stand by one another and when to urge we all step back.

Open communication and open access to the facts are important.

Calling each other names gets us nowhere. (My two cents worth)

differences regarding food and energy sources

Bad things happened, an entire run of them that shut me down, caused me to withdraw from everything except my inner self.

One afternoon, in a hammock, I took a photo of myself. Just my legs. But there was no one to send it to. No one to understand.

I needed a sidekick so I sketched an armadillo because they’re crusty on the outside but not within. I made him my butler. Crusoe’s manservant Friday.

We began interacting—my hammock photo speaking to that critter, that critter speaking back.There’s a folder of cartoons somewhere. For now there’s just this one. (LINK)

Eventually after that I began writing novels.

I’m still a hermit, marooned you might say, but leaving my shell more and more—my inner self seeking its freedom through writing.