And just like that May is over.
My birthday month. My personal New Year. My annual, slightly delusional belief that the universe revolves, briefly but meaningfully, around me.
May, you were glorious. You showed up like a main character that was blossoming, dramatic and slightly unhinged in your optimism.
You whispered, “Anything is possible.”And I, naturally, believed you.
There is something psychologically delicious about a birthday month.
It’s not just cake and candles. It’s narrative control.
A chance to say:
“This is my era.”
“This is my plot twist.”
“This is where everything changes.”
(Or at minimum, where I buy something mildly unnecessary but deeply symbolic.)
And now we have June.
June arrives like a cooler, quieter cousin.
A little less sparkle.
A little more fog.
Ah yes there is June Gloom, the atmospheric equivalent of “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”
But here’s the thing. June is sneaky.
Because underneath the marine layer and emotional neutrality, it carries something May only flirted with. Momentum! Summer begins.
Things shift. Big things. Life things.
The kind that don’t announce themselves with candles and wishes but arrive anyway, asking if one is ready.
(Spoiler: we are never fully ready. That has never stopped anything.)
Psychologically, this is the pivot.
May is about possibility.
June is about follow-through.
May says: dream it
June says: okay, now live it.
And honestly?
That’s where it gets interesting.
Because it’s one thing to feel expansive under birthday magic.
It’s another thing entirely to step into change when the sky is gray and no one is singing to you.
So goodbye, May.
You delightful, indulgent, slightly narcissistic time capsule.
Thank you for the hope, the cake, the temporary belief in effortless transformation.
Hello, June.
I see your gloom. I raise you cautious optimism.
Let’s do something real.
Oh my.
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psychologistmimi 
“Four Score And Seven Years Ago”
Just Kidding 250 Years Ago Coming July 4th
Our Forefathers Better Yet the Rest of the Entire
Family Created A New Frontier
Where Eventually Slaves could
Be Free and Savages Also Identified
As Humans Both Wild and Free in Dancing Ease
Dear Miriam Yes in the Pursuit of Life Liberty and Happiness
Both By Group
And Or Solo
Dreams
Come to
Fruition Yikes
True with the Potential
of Orange Nightmares too
Perhaps Laws Provided Do Not
Provide Guardrails for That Yet
Always Room to Improve with New Laws too
Anyway Meanwhile there is the Potential for Us to
Write Direct and Be the Main And Supporting Character
Of Our Plays
Of Life in every
New Testament Breath
Or Sit In the Cave and Do
the Same Hand Print Art
Smeared Gold On
Capitol Walls
True Not Unlike ‘Bennie and
The Jets’ it’s Both Weird and Wonderful too
Yes We Can Do “The Sopranos” Or Escape to
Our Own Islands Naked Enough Whole Complete
Anyway considering this i already Stole the Month
And Year Away With “April Fred’s Year for Now”
Moving On to “All A Flow Free Waves Water
Ocean Whole” And True Starting
April Fool’s Day AKA April
Fred’s Year For Now
Hehe Yes still
Now a 30 Year
Old Century Cactus
Only Flower Stalk for
A Lifetime of Saving Up all that
Love to Transform into a Flowering
Looking Tree on Top of what Looks Like
A Giant Aloe Plant With Spiny Projections
Sharper than What a CockRoach Breeds Yes
Yet Hmm Actually a Member of the Asparagus
Family of Plants ‘Jack in The Bean Stalk’ Sprouting
Three Feet that April 1st Day Now Day 63 Still Rising
to the Heaven’s Above in Our Front Yard 30 Feet Tall Branching
Out With Buds Fixing to Bloom Likely on or about Yes my Original
Birthdate ever since 6.6.60 On June 6th As Friday True Will be the
66th Day Since the Birth of “Century Cactus Patience Bloom of What
Comes Next” Yes “Route 66 Dancing And Singing Around the World at 66”
Literally So Approaching 24K Miles Reaching the Distance around the Equator
of the Earth in Public Dance Close to Christmas Day ThiS Year still at Age 66 Continuing
my Own Celebration
of my Own Way
of “Route 66”
Triva note: Route 66
The Actual Road Celebrates
A 100th Anniversary this Year too
Hehe or Perhaps it Celebrates my Birthday
HA! Plus the 250th Anniversary Our Nation
Yes Essence
me hehe every
breath every move
every word Holy Dance
Sacred Song Freedom Rings
in the
Story
i Do For Real
Meanwhile Play
Slays Fear Just
Killing Time Forever Now
Why End in May there’s Now
To Breathe a New Testament of Birth
In June
And Yes
Just Do It
Even With No
Worries of Selling
or Buying Shoes my
Wife Already Loaded up
On the Cheap of Amazon
Beating the
Tariffs
by Many
More Thousand
Miles of Free Public Dance
Hehe Now my Work-Out Room
Looks Like the Stock Room of a Shoe Store
Hehe from what i remember You Have a Few
Shoes
Stocked
Up always
for the New You
too With Creative SMiLes
Yep Just
for You
to New
Testament Do too..:)
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