About |_|)
Hello, my name is Dorian & I’m an addict; yes, I’m addicted to coffee & all such things that enrich any given moment – tea, laughter, silliness… I’ve been online for nearly 2 decades, been married for just over 2 decades & have lived with chronic pain for 3 decades while wending my way thru life’s whims & whiles for a bit more than 4 decades. I’ve gone from the never-say-die approach to living, wherein I was actually slowly but surely killing myself the faster I went, thru simply surviving to thriving more each day.
“No city invites the heart
to come to life as San Francisco does.
Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.”
– William Saroyan –
[always bloom where you’re planted yet
strive to take root where you’ll flourish |_|)]
PSST: Fun fact, this is a quotationary; they’re what I do.
The man mad enough to marry me met a woman with four jobs – three of which paid me – & ended up being a care-giver. My poor put-upon partner helped me accept just how sick I was as I saw my symptomology from a fresh perspective; fear usually wins the battles if not the war & is almost always honest. My Hunny watched helplessly as I ended up bed-ridden within our first decade together yet helped me learn how to admit limitations, ask for help & begin to find a far more sustainable solution to not wanting to waste a moment of this wonderful wayward weirdness called life.
As for why “coffeesister” & what I’m about: Stranger in a Strange Land is my favorite book by Robert A. Heinlein & a title I relate to all too well. One of its key concepts is that sharing water in any form can be symbolic of the willingness to connect. As coffee is by far the best use of water, I consider it tangible friendship. I believe in truth to self, I’m a spoonie who refuses to let being chronically ill define me & I can attest that coffee is a health drink. Aka coffeesister, I serve coffee for the soul with warmth, wisdom, a dash of wit & a side of quotable grokking. As a spoonie nearly ended by Endo, I’m fighting autoimmune dysfunction, chronic pain including a daily headache with Migraine along with my only other confirmed diagnosis so far of Endometriosis, complete with hysterectomy & colectomy.
30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know
(posted for Invisible Illness Awareness Week)
Given my physical limitations & belief that we’re all interconnected, the world of the web is no less real to me than the physical one I inhabit; in fact, due to having slightly more control of my mind than my body, the digital world often feels like the more real of the two (& is certainly much easier to navigate ~_^). When we connect electronically, we’re simply acknowledging the red string fate has tied to each of us, regardless of where in the world we live. The distances that separate us, be they imagined (e.g. status &/or wealth) or real (i.e. location), are meaningless (as is age – one of the first supposed separators the internet overruled) since all we really own in this existence are our experiences. I’m sharing mine along with what I’m learning along the way, with the intention of helping for I believe that’s why we’re here; we’ve all been lent to each other.
PS: While my quotationary-inspired posts have been on hold, I still pin, plus, tumbl or tweet quotationaries & encouragement fairly often. ^_^
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