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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS


Google: 
“Through the looking glass" is a metaphorical expression. It means: on the strange side, in the twilight zone, in a strange parallel world. It comes from the idea of Lewis Carroll's novel: "Through the Looking-Glass," and the strange and mysterious world Alice finds when she steps through a mirror.
Britannica: 
Through the Looking-Glass, in full Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, is a book by Lewis Carroll, dated 1872 but actually published in December 1871. Written as a sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice’s further adventures as she moves through a mirror into another unreal world of illogical behavior, this one dominated by chessboards and chess pieces.

Like Alice, I seem to have fallen into a rabbit hole.  My boundaries have been alternately shrunken and exploded by what I have consumed.  But now things are decidedly different.  Because now I’ve stepped through a looking-glass and entered a parallel universe.  
 
I am living in a strange and mysterious world now, an unreal world of illogical behavior.  Nothing is as it was.  On the other side of the looking-glass black is white, down is up, and wrong is right.   The truth has turned into a shimmering shape-shifter that sits on the surface of a fun house mirror.   Only I’m not having fun and this isn’t funny.  

How do I escape from this madhouse and find solid ground, common ground, where my compass always points true north?
Following the advice of Grace Slick, I feed my head.  

I know there has to be an exit from Crazy Town, a way out.  I look backwards to find my future.  I turn away with all my will power from what makes me mad as a March Hare and grasp with all my might what keeps me sane. 
I retreat from this chessboard, this Great Game dominated by ruthless cutthroats and go outdoors.  In Nature I feel safe and rejoice in the familiarity of other living things that will not betray me.  I am comforted by the inner peace that comes from knowing I will never betray them. 

I open my eyes to any sign of a creative force to keep the forces of destruction at bay.  Both surround me, but I choose where to focus my gaze.  I see what I choose to see.

I open my heart to companionship—to my husband, my cats, and my friends.  They lift me out of myself and tuck me into their world.  They make me happy. 
 
I choose to step back through the looking-glass and into my own land of wonders.  I have the power.

Keep it real!
Marilyn

Comments

  1. AnitaNovember 24, 2019 at 9:23 PM

    Think of those things that are constant and true. Despite all the lies and corruption, we march on and fight the good fight.

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    1. MarilynNovember 24, 2019 at 9:38 PM

      Our friendship is constant and true. We abide. XX

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  2. steveNovember 25, 2019 at 8:25 AM

    The biggest problem is that you can't get away from it. It would be so much easier to deal with if the USA were some two bit country.

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