structural linguistics in my head

Investigating the relationship (if it exists) between the prefixes "re-" and "de-" as they relate to the base of "value". Does the former invoke the latter, either categorically or contextually? In that space of uncertainty and ignorance, an immense amount of yuck collects and coils.

finishing

I got my Reiki 3 today. It seemed important to me, in symbolic ways, that I finish something. It's become a heavy, unpleasant part of my personal mythology that I'm someone who doesn't finish things, is unable or unwilling to see things through. I've worn the dilettante label like the mark of a criminal, as someone who masters nothing, may be incapable of mastery, so instead gathers an unstructured melange of intermediate level skills and interests. This was an important step in breaking that pattern, in pursuing something to its end. Hopefully it will give me an important counterexample such that I can break the patterns I'm well and fully tired of now.

(no subject)

Despite a rocky start (mitigated by my titanic liver), today totally did not suck.