This is my first read and I give thanks that Spike is in the world. Anyone who’s not read her latest book — should get it right now. I had to step gently around the title - but once inside, is’s all Spike, true human, funny and basically helps you to want to carry on.
Oh, I SOOOOO get it. I'm grateful I have a mare that I rescued from some kind of human hell, who over the last 13 years of our time together, has taught me to "MARE UP!" She did not like humans, and quite frankly, I don't blame her, and of course I took her home. She has taught me more about boundaries than I ever learned going through my early life. In the past I would have cowered from the "tiny hands," entitlement club. Unfortunately, now I find myself allowing my inner mare to get on her hind legs and strike. It's not a good way to be living, but I will not give in to this sick moment we are living through and the damage it is causing. I had an incident with a short guy at the freakin' dog park. I was literally minding my own business and loading my dog in the car, but he felt the need to start up with me, in front of his 11 year old son, quite expecting that the old lady would cower. It was kind of fun to see him run away, when the wild mare arrived. I've lived 65 years of wondering if I am going to get raped taking a walk in the woods by myself, quite frankly, I'm over it. I just had a thought, maybe I'll start carrying my 6-foot lunge whip with me every where I go. I hope your tingles have subsided.
Yes to the Inner Mare. Oh I am so tired of it. It’s like, I don’t need people to kiss my ass or even “treat the elder with respect.” Just stop getting up in my face and pretending to be the boss of me. I’m sorry we have to get back in their faces—what a waste of time and energy—but I refuse to be cowed by them.
Damn, a bad day can get worse...but hopefully the week will get better. Stress makes people do awful things, say awful things and behave as mentioned "children". Bullies Beware, we are getting fed up. Adults unite!
Thanks for the laugh (re. the plant-based sausage at I-HOP), because I really needed it. I also have that feeling, and as a fellow English degree holder, appreciate all the metaphors and love your writing.
Fellow English major here too, one of the bygone college degrees! "Pant-peeing ecstasy" made me LOL. I hope you've metabolized that scorpion venom and that it empowers you greatly. To me, scorpions are a symbol of elegantly channeled rage.
How am I holding up? Unfortunately I'm enjoying the fact that I'm an unmarried white male with no children who, with relative unsatisfactiion, voted for the other candidate. I'm also reminding myself every day, while T-rump paves over the Rose Garden and sends hundreds of thousands of poor people across the globe to an early grave without AIDS medication, that every day we are one step closer to the end of this Presidency. Hopefully.
Ha! Indeed I am. I met David when he was first starting out. I wrote a story about him that was later used as the basis for a documentary. He has done some amazing things.
This is my first read and I give thanks that Spike is in the world. Anyone who’s not read her latest book — should get it right now. I had to step gently around the title - but once inside, is’s all Spike, true human, funny and basically helps you to want to carry on.
Thank you ❤️
Oh, I SOOOOO get it. I'm grateful I have a mare that I rescued from some kind of human hell, who over the last 13 years of our time together, has taught me to "MARE UP!" She did not like humans, and quite frankly, I don't blame her, and of course I took her home. She has taught me more about boundaries than I ever learned going through my early life. In the past I would have cowered from the "tiny hands," entitlement club. Unfortunately, now I find myself allowing my inner mare to get on her hind legs and strike. It's not a good way to be living, but I will not give in to this sick moment we are living through and the damage it is causing. I had an incident with a short guy at the freakin' dog park. I was literally minding my own business and loading my dog in the car, but he felt the need to start up with me, in front of his 11 year old son, quite expecting that the old lady would cower. It was kind of fun to see him run away, when the wild mare arrived. I've lived 65 years of wondering if I am going to get raped taking a walk in the woods by myself, quite frankly, I'm over it. I just had a thought, maybe I'll start carrying my 6-foot lunge whip with me every where I go. I hope your tingles have subsided.
Yes to the Inner Mare. Oh I am so tired of it. It’s like, I don’t need people to kiss my ass or even “treat the elder with respect.” Just stop getting up in my face and pretending to be the boss of me. I’m sorry we have to get back in their faces—what a waste of time and energy—but I refuse to be cowed by them.
I'm with you.
Damn, a bad day can get worse...but hopefully the week will get better. Stress makes people do awful things, say awful things and behave as mentioned "children". Bullies Beware, we are getting fed up. Adults unite!
Thanks for the laugh (re. the plant-based sausage at I-HOP), because I really needed it. I also have that feeling, and as a fellow English degree holder, appreciate all the metaphors and love your writing.
Thank you. Yeah, that I-HOP sausage…
Fellow English major here too, one of the bygone college degrees! "Pant-peeing ecstasy" made me LOL. I hope you've metabolized that scorpion venom and that it empowers you greatly. To me, scorpions are a symbol of elegantly channeled rage.
Oh! What an excellent way to look at scorpions. Thank you. And may you never encounter Officer Murray.
How am I holding up? Unfortunately I'm enjoying the fact that I'm an unmarried white male with no children who, with relative unsatisfactiion, voted for the other candidate. I'm also reminding myself every day, while T-rump paves over the Rose Garden and sends hundreds of thousands of poor people across the globe to an early grave without AIDS medication, that every day we are one step closer to the end of this Presidency. Hopefully.
hi, I'm in the middle of rereading David Ansel's book about his soup delivery business in Austin Texas, “the soup peddlers slow and difficult soups”
One of the characters in the book is Spike Gillespie. Are you that Spike Gillespie?
Ha! Indeed I am. I met David when he was first starting out. I wrote a story about him that was later used as the basis for a documentary. He has done some amazing things.
That is so cool... I hope you will keep on keeping on standing up for what you believe
You are not imagining it! Love you so much friend. The soul poverty of all these small, wanna be authoritarians is so glaring.
Dang. I was hoping it was my imagination. Dog help us all in these trying times!