Traumatic Experiences Community Daily Check-In Friday April 20th 2018

Hello Survivor Family, I hope alle are well. Today I thought I would explain a saying I use here often as it is a bit more significant than most see. And since I have been explaining it to a few I thought I would share with alle. I am refering to when you see me say "Iss Lifa" (pronounced eese leefah). This is a saying as goes back to the dawn of history with my people. Iss is the olde Norse word for Ice, Lifa is life but also the life force. Using these two words together on the surface says "This is life". But my people often speak and write in double and tripple meaning. Iss isn't just Ice, it's a glacier we're now referring to here. When one of us speaks what seems to be a doomed note with seemingly no resolution and I speak Iss Lifa, I speak on that yes life can be cold and hard like a glacier. But to understand this one must understand the nature of a glacier. Yes glaciers are hard and cold, and may seem impassable and permenant like a mountain. The fact is that glaciers are constantly moving. Expanding and contracting, breaking and falling into smaller pieces. Change in a glacier takes a very long time, but they are constantly changing. They may move so slow no one ever notices, or they may break and fall or slide. As slow as it may be, when a glacier does move, it moves with such a powerful force as can carve great valleys in the earth, and when a piece breaks and falls into the sea it can make a powerdul wave that can capsize a ship. In the water a glacier can flip without warning striking ships or sinking them by wave. Iss is slow, so slow most never see, but when they move it is an unstopable force.

Change Iss Lifa. Change always moves slow, but moves with great power and can become unstopable. Often the changes we make in our lives are like this. With this month of Child Abuse Awareness, every phost we alle make, everytime we use our voice to speak out, we set change in motion. Sometimes rapid, mostly slow, but when set in motion properly, unstopable. Heat can make a glacier smaller, but really that also makes it slippery and faster to move. Always use your voice, speak out against what you know to be wrong and set change in motion. Don't fear a little heat, just make motion faster. Alle the greatest lessons we have to learn can be found everywhere, just have to open your heart and eyes to find them.

So how are you alle today? Any words of wisdom you wish to share? A funny tale perhaps? Still accepting recipies and dish suggestions, so drop us a phost an say hi an anything else that may be on your mind. I do appologise in advance that my responses will be slow today, I'm repiping my water distribution in my new home but will be in and out as often as I can.

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