Delenn

@Brycc alThyran we have a discord channel too! You should check it out. In the meantime, I haven’t been able to pull up your Tower form, would you please submit it again?

Welcome to the Tower @Brycc alThyran! 🤍 I will take a look and we’ll get you set up soon. Feel free to poke around and join in until then!

@HeroAndros Come helps us rebuild, please! I'll even join the dark side if you do.... 🖤

An Earl Gray Martini? I think that might be on the bitter side for me. But oh my, the cake sounds amazing! How about some earl gray cookies and scones? 😄

Laughs as she's scooped up and gives Dice a tight hug as she's spun around. It's soo good to see you. 😁🤍 I'm good! Very busy lately but doing my best to be around more. It must have been 10 years! So much has happened. I'm on Discord, and even sign in on occasion. lol And I can't read the last book because then its over 🥲 My current plan is to read it on my death bed

I do! I do! 🖤

Ahh, you do know the way to my red-side. Hugs and snugglebites MG Cairos back ☺️ I thought I’d go exploring. 😁 So what does MG stand for?

This is a thing. You do have to sign up in each case. But there is .com .co.uk at the very least.

Wanders in, a bit wary of being trampled in this joust Just peaking in, but after too many years that avatar made me grin @dicetosser1. I just knew it was you and had to say hello. I don’t know if you remember me or not but it’s good to see you again. 🤍 And I haven’t read the last book either, @Cairos 😅

🤭 😅 You won’t believe this, but you’d have to teach me too! I was always so buried in The Tower I never really tried it! But we can have a go! A Tower Mafia game 😁

Thanks, I think.

don't let your skin become so thick that nothing can hurt you anymore getting wounded is part of the experience the scars you collect are all part of your story take off your armor and give vulnerability a chance to paint your naked form feel the sunlight on your shoulders let the wind move through your hair give your tears a chance to be counted allow us to be swept up in your smile ~ you see, my love, you weren't born to be hidden behind a towering wall you were formed out of an ancient whisper to become a natural wonder where we all visit to listen to the songbirds sing through the pines of your evergreen beauty you were given this skin to be kissed softly - don't let it grow scales you were given your eyes to reflect starlight - don't close them to keep us from seeing your soul you were given your hands to lace inside another hand - don't keep them constantly folded in your lap my love, I know this world can be a sharpened spear that will often pierce you but when given a choice bleeding is always better than apathy someday when we meet in the moving cosmic river that exists on the crawling fringe of everything let's take turns washing each other's scars while saying the same prayer over and over: "I got this wound for caring and I got this one for having an open heart but that is the cost that comes from being a living work of sacred art." ~ John Roedel

We are kindred spirits! lol

Boopsy! I’m completely capable of shifting around like a lady if it comes to that. 🫣🤣

I hope you are better after a goodnight's sleep! 🖤 I always seem to push my recovery too fast myself. I can't stand being down with anything. My worst habit is I will stop taking medications too soon and then try to get moving again as soon as I can stand. lol Not usually doctor's orders. 😅

*attempts to twist around a bit and gets a few scratches* So, is anyone going to let me out of this trap before I go as mad as the rest of you? Or at least, whatever happened to that drink I was promised? Perhaps I won't mind so much then... 🤔

*runs through swinging her glittering mace and spraying everyone with black sparkles* I hope you are feeling a bit better after your last few weeks, Oh Great Lady of Darkness! 🖤

I can completely relate to this. I also tend to shut the world out and even my closest friends will start to loose touch. I would love to say when I withdraw I am doing something productive but honestly I think I just shut down. And that is at the best of times. I think it has something to do with my adrenal disease. When I get stressed it also shuts my body down, so I become poorly as well. Not always in an identifiable way, but more subtle things like not being able to eat and sleeping almost constantly to the point of being unable to wake up. These are of course signs I am heading towards an Adrenal Crises and need additional doses of my medicine but I often don't see what is happening unless some one intervenes. I have had steady friends over the years that have helped to pull me out and eventually I realized that I needed to be sure to maintain my friendships, as they were the only things that seem to counter act it. It's why I returned to DM after so many years away. The connections and playing about on the boards, the deeper, more thoughtful conversations we have here together remind me of who I am as a person. It's a bit ironic that the very thing that tends to help me is the very thing I pull away from but the energy just stops being there. I am also not much of an abreactor. Challenging me won't get a response. But if something or some I love or care about is hurting or being hurt I will set aside everything to try and fight for them. Unfortunately, even that will exhaust me physically again until I just don't have it in me to even do that sometimes. I have come to the idea that I have to have some sort of support network that helps me feel alive again and then I start looking for fragments of who I had been prior to the depression starting (usually started by an event or series of events). Then when I find them, I try to start putting the pieces of whats left of the person I remember back in place. 🤍❄️

Many years ago I used to post inspirational quotes in The Tower. Sometimes, if they had enough likes, I would start a topic for discussion in the White Ajah. I am getting this small tradition started again but this time I would like to invite everyone to post quotes and sayings that have helped them in life in someway. And if there is interest in one in particular, pm me and I will consider working with you to start a topic. The only rule is that the quote must uplift or inspire you in some fashion. Here is a poem to start us off; “Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands. Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell me of thy desires And I will tell thee of thy need.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune