My 2022

it's that time of year for retrospection. 2022 didn't have a great start due largely to the sciatica, and end of June the dreaded covid came my way, and the business with the heart monitor fiasco (still don't know results, and my surgery have been onto the surgery twice in December, with no response) but overall, this bucket year, ive done more than the rest of my life put together
20 life modellings (+hosted another),
31 open mic poetry readings(+hosted two others~) at 13 different venues
won 2 Awards, 1 from Care for the Carers, and one from HVA for Arts in the Park
guest for Q&A poetry, and lgbtq+ at a local Academy
was a green fairy for outdoor theatre
was a poetic tree sprite for another outdoor theatre event
became a pensioner!
became a granny
written over 420 poems this year, total now exceeds 1,070, and have now been read over 206,000 times
and done over 600 hours of volunteering
in all the previous years leading up to this year, then combined, they aren't even one tenth of what ive done this year. i have no idea what motivated me to just go for it, it just seemed to happen. the life modelling had initially started as an idea that i thought i would never do, and as far as i know, i am the first legitimate life model that's ever done it in Alexandra Park! awaiting a call to do it in the open air for 2023, and on my birthday i not only life modelled in my birthday suit, but also read poetry at the same time, whilst wearing green fairy wings! thus becoming a naked poet! ive also suggested that i'd be happy to be body painted..........
so far have 3 open mics lined up for January
not posting as much of my writings, especially the environmental, and war poems etc here, but still on poetry sites, but trying to keep the more positive stuff, if they don't take you off to the land of Fae, then hope to bring some humour in
I'll be back to my phone calls on tuesday, and that keeps me in touch with reality, and how tough, and cruel life can be.
i don't know how long ive got left on this planet, but i intend to go out with a bang (not literally! although feel like mister Creosote at the mo, one more wafer........)
what's surprised me more than anything, is that i still feel that no matter what i do, something will go wrong somewhere, and that feeling has followed me all my life, so this year hasn't supported that feeling, but found that i have RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria) hence why ive always tried to be a people pleaser, and although aware that ' you can please some of the people, some of the time..........which caused me at times to be trying to please opposing parties, tricky!
anyway, ramble over
hope you all have a wonderful 2023
take care
lots of love
Jemia, or Je'mia!
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