The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: chaos

  • Civil War in America? Not This Century.

    Civil War in America? Not This Century.

    Never underestimate our apathy.

  • Chaos Reigns

    “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

  • Whale-Sized Karma

    You’ll get yours, eventually. Maybe.

  • Making Headway

    Never give chaos the recognition it craves.

  • We Are Five…

    Things are getting complex.

  • Things That Make Me Lose My Composure

    Someone told me the other day that I’m very composed. It took me by surprise, but I suppose it’s true. I don’t enjoy drama. I haven’t thrown a tantrum in, oh, at least a week or two. (Joke.) I think the reason I’ve never thought of myself as the poster child for composure is that…

  • Controlling Makes You Lose Control

    I know someone who insists that people do things simply because she wants to see if people will do them. Unfortunately, as is often the case with people like this, she has been placed in a position of power that she is neither qualified for nor capable of handling in a functional way. She knows…

  • When Things Fall Into Place

    For me, there is nothing quite as satisfying as those brief, random moments when the chaos that usually swirls about me suddenly becomes a comprehensible, stable, solid whole. Maybe it’s because I’m a worrier and a planner, but that “All’s Right with the World” feeling often eludes me. That makes it all the more precious…

  • I’ve Come Undone

    I am at the end of my rope. I’m on the ragged edge. I’m losing it. I’m buying a house. I’m packing, I’m moving. I’m making changes and updating and getting rid of stuff. I’m doing paperwork. I’m documenting. I’m panicking that I won’t get everything done on time, or I’ll forget something important. And…

  • Bad Bridge! Bad!

    I’d say that working on a drawbridge is a very zen-like experience 95% of the time. Unfortunately, you never know when that 5% of pure chaos is going to rear up and bite you on the patootie. I had one of those days recently. I went to bed at 3am. No, I’m not a party…