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~  I update this page periodically, as time and the Muse allow. ~

~~ Soon to be unveiled:  www.MishaBearWomanMetzler.com ~~

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"It is only with the heart that one sees rightly;

what is essential is invisible to the eye."

~The fox to The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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BE ADVISED~
The one known as BearWoman has found part of what she is looking for creatively in this place. A realm of mutually respectful, mutually supportive artists who appreciate and encourage each other's efforts while respecting individual differences.

I have apparently created a reputation for myself here as a reviewer. While I very much enjoy engaging in interaction with other creative sorts in this way, my capacity and availablity in this regard is very inconsistent at this time.

I also need and desire reviews in all levels of depth from others. I will try to keep the pieces on which I most want feedback pinned to this page. I can't do it all by myself! (Note: Sometimes it will take awhile before I can get my mind around feedback I have received. It is all appreciated, noted, and I do actually intend to get to serious consideration of it when capacity and other timing allows.) I prefer critical comments be posted to the relevant poem page, so I won't lose them out the back end of the AP mail system.



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BE ADVISED~
I often come across as highly intelligent, competent, and upbeat. However, please expect irregularity and inconsistency from me. As well, you are seeing me out of proportion to my ordinary reality and through the filter of the ‘net. I live with catastrophic, chronic, long-term disability that varies in ways which can substantially affect my capacities (cognitive more so than emotional, yet some of that as well).

Part of how I am allowing my Muse to guide me at this time is by tuning in more keenly to the ebb and flow of my internal processes. Because of that, even I cannot predict when and how shifts in my needs and behaviors are likely to occur. When this happens, please be aware that it is much more likely to be about me and my own process, rather than about how I feel about you.

Namaste’
Misha Bear



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"No decent human being would allow an animal to suffer without putting it out of its misery. It is only to human beings that human beings are so cruel as to allow them to live on in pain, in hopelessness, in living death, without moving a muscle to help them. It is against such attitudes that this book fights."

~ Isaac Asimov, on Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphrey

A poem that relates: Pity the Fool

My writings on Living Well and The Right to Die:
Essays (columns) ~ Pubic journal entries ~ Poems

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2009 August 21 update:

I'm not doing well right now and expect this to last indefintely. Expect my available and capacity to be inconsistent.

2009 June 27 update:

EXPECT FROM ME at this time: Inconsistency, irregularity, many times of inability to comprehend well. For things to slip through what appear to be increasingly widening cracks. Creativity. Inability to self review my writing (or to be able to do a decent job of reviewing yours). Perhaps occassional flashes of brilliance. The desire to continue to express creatively through words (mainly through writing, and sometimes through interactions). Apparently sudden losses of energy and focus when I need to end interactions abruptly. Caring, compassion, and respect, although I may not be as able as I have been in the past at being sure these attributes convey.

NOTE:  I plan to post personal journal entries about what is going on for me. Due to the nature of these posts, I expect to limit access to those particular writings to "friends only." That means we must be on each other's Favorites lists. If we aren't and you want us to be, please let me know.

last update: 2009 August 21