there's a great saying in Croatian "aku nemash u glavi imash u nogama" basically it means if you don't have it in the head you must have it in the legs i mean, just today, i put the chooks away and then had to run back later to get the chook bucket and make sure I'd shut the hatch over the nesting boxes so wandering cats or foxes couldn't get in but sometimes my legs have nowhere to run and my brain runs instead into the pit of my stomach and whips up like a whisk curdling whatever's there i try hiding under a quilt like i've seen my kids do but my brain is under there with me and although i can't see the monsters i know they're all still out there (and let's be honest they're not the kind of monsters who hang about for ogling) so it doesn't take long for me to throw the useless quilt aside and stomp angrily through the house gathering up dirty clothes and shoving them malevolently into the washing machine anger is easier and some of the curdles come out through my crashing feet curling out on the floor where i can sweep them up later and put them in the bin.
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Out of the Cave 
What a powerful poem.
Reminded me of the old saying, upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing!
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Or… if the light’s not on in the attic, check for pumpkins in the cellar. Sorry. Made that up. 🙂🤔🥴
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I like that🙂
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Hahaha I have heard that saying from my husband! Did you say you had Croatian ancestors?
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Not my side – my husband’s side. 🙂
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That’s right, I remember you wrote about it before. Kako dobro!
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good description of a mental state: I LOVE that line: ‘shovelling them malevolently into the washing machine’ ; I have never thought of my dirty clothes in that light 🙂
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🙂 thank you.
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“and my brain runs instead
into the pit of my stomach
and whips up like a whisk
curdling whatever’s there”
This is such a good description for that feeling!
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Oh thank you. It’s certainly how I feel anxiety.
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