Katinka Lampe, 6065148*, 2014 *not a phone number. the non-title of the painting.

I think I fell into a trap

earlier today. I think I fell into exactly the trap that the man in the White House and his puppet masters would have us fall into. The "trial" got me hooked into the feeling of surrealness that we're all familiar with now, the seasick feeling of bent reality.  The seasick feeling was strong enough that I started brainstorming in here about remedies for it. Before I could brainstorm the remedies, though, I felt compelled to analyze the seasickness, examine the problem of surrealness under a microscope, gnaw on the bones of what gives us a comforting sense of plain reality in the first place, differentiate the seasickness from despair, rage, etc.   It wasn't helping, it didn't do anything. It made it worse.

Ah!

That was the trap.

WHEN SOMEONE IS MESSING WITH YOUR MIND,

and yes, someone is messing with your mind; we're at war like that

DON'T GET TANGLED IN YOUR MIND TO TRY AND FEEL BETTER.    Alessandro Sicioldr, Visione del grande carro, 2017

Relief is not in there. Don't keep opening that mental refrigerator door to see if a new relief snack has appeared. It hasn't. Don't keep thinking on and on all day like you're going to work something out unless you're getting paid to do that for exactly the thing you're thinking about.

  GO BACK TO THE BASICSTHERE ARE THINGS WE CAN RELY ON

The basics are

 DO THINGS you don't like something, take some kind of action that involves your voice, your body, your hands, your feet, some combo thereof  and take care of your damn self with food and sleep and exercise and hugging people and cleaning things  making things, mending things     FEEL THINGS

I am not including helplessness as a thing you can feel because it isn't one  That's a feeling + a thought and those things are separate There are four feelings, like primary colors but four of them   SAD feeling ANGRY feeling HAPPY feeling SCARED feeling  That's all of them. There aren't other ones. There are those four, and blends of those four. That's everything that's a feeling. If it has a picture in it of things that are happening, or a lot of words in it that are a story of how the feeling happened,  then guess what:  now you're thinking.     

Alessandro Sicioldr, Sussuro (whisper)

 By the way:No human can have infinite amounts of a particular bad feeling in them.You can have a hell of a lot but not an infinite amount.It's possible to get the entire troublesome amount* you have stored up about something

all felt

if you don't keep thinking a bunch and making more feelings while you're doing it.  

*not all at once but keep visiting it

Like: If you're emptying water out of your rowboat, you don't simultaneously run a hose into your rowboat, which is what you're doing if you're perpetually thinking about the thing that's making you feel bad while you're feeling bad

Katinka Lampe, 138148

Solutions to problems are separate from the feelings about the problems and  

solutions are not to be found(OR DETERMINED TO BE UNFINDABLE) in the middle of a major feeling runoff, no matter what your brain is trying to tell you.   

Katinka Lampe, 600151

I'm not against thinking

  That would be dumb.

Thinking leads us away from the basics, is what I'm saying,so if the basics are what you need most,keep it at a minimum.

If you've got the verve for more than the basics,

have at it.

If you're spinning out, though, if the seasickness is too wild,stop thinking and pick a basic.

We don't have to accept these traps. Wriggle out and live your life.

Katinka Lampe, 5065195 again, not a phone number don't try to call this painting

 Two recommendations this week

 The Expanse

Have you seen this show? If not and you're a person who enjoyed, say, Battlestar Galactica, get on top of it. It's every bit as good if not better. Prime Video. There are a few seasons out already. (We're halfway through Season 2.)

 this Twitter account: