Michael Clark

in service to life, healing, and joy

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@Softapocalypses I will seduce you with my heart for the next few hours if I don’t hear you again and you will hear my heart again in a minute or so I am going back and I am not sure if I can get a good nights rest and sleep in my own house or if you can come over here to my room.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@fkaannabanana If I was hungry enough, absolutely

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea Are you wanting to learn something or wanting to obtain a degree in something or both or…?

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea I have. Probably a good reminder! <3

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@Softapocalypses The ghosts.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea My thoughts are informed from traditions like co-counseling // re-evaluation counseling;

rebirthing;

“Grief & Praise” by Martin Prechtel

Stories of other people who have processed traumatic feelings;

And my own personal embodied experiences.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea Feeling these feelings may feel viscerally unsafe. You have been protecting yourself so long and it requires returning to the scene of the incident and feeling what you felt and expressing what you couldn’t.

Tears, sobs, wailing, screaming, shaking, crying, laughing…

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea If you have loved ones available, having one or more people to hold space for you to descend into your experience can be helpful but one can do what one can do in solitude.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea If you have a safe environment, affirm to that past part of you that you’re safe, you’re with them, you love them and it’s okay for them to show up however they need to.

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I find a hot quiet bath by candle light can facilitate feeling the feelings and helping them flow.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea But also:

>> Alice In Chains*

Man in the Box my favorite of theirs I think

>> Alice’s Restaurant*

*LOVE THIS SONG

>> Alice Cooper

Love him from Wayne’s World first (and an interview he shared with Andrew W.K.)

And I haven’t seen Alice Sweet Alice but it’s in my head #*>

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea ::

What would you love to say? Is there anything you’re needing to say?

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While I wait:

Have you ever slept out under the stars?

Have you ever danced in a rainstorm?

Have you ever howled at the moon?

🌙

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea And as for Alice:

I am well acquainted (and friends of sorts) with Dominic Barter:

https://t.co/5XRaVeUYVE

I met him at a gathering on the land of The Possibility Alliance in 2013. He brought his (at the time maybe 7 year old?) daughter Alice. I think of her.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea I have been told he also invented the aspect of water fountains that dissuade people from putting their mouth directly over the outlet hole. The guard.

I have no evidence to back his claim other than trusting what my family has told me. It makes sense that he would have done.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea My surname is Clark.

My father worked his career mostly as a nurse.

My grandfather worked his career mostly as a physicist.

My great grandfather a microbiologist.

His name is Paul F. Clark.

One thing. Is he is know for is writing Alice in Virusland.

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@WindowsByTheSea

[Michael Clark @MichaelClarkJ]

@sandyjfisher :: if you’re willing, I’m curious what your bio region is?

I’m based out of northeast Ohio.