Musings from a Mystified Girl Archives - Justina Kamiel Grayman, PhD https://www.justinagrayman.com/category/musings/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 119021177 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3821-2/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:14:58 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3821 Dear Mystified Girl – The world moves so fast that sometimes you go silent. Sometimes the world spins in circles around you and you cannot keep up. Sometimes the people […]

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]]> Dear Mystified Girl – The world moves so fast that sometimes you go silent. Sometimes the world spins in circles around you and you cannot keep up. Sometimes the people of the world would like for you to start spinning with them. But you don’t have to, mystified girl. You can stop. Stop the spinning. Sometimes, you are meant to be the one who walks slow and stands still. Stand still, mystified girl. Stay silent. Walk slow.  Excerpt from Letters to A Mystified Girl.

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]]> 3821 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3818-2/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:59:27 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3818 but isn’t it just timeto simply hold each other but some peoplejust don’t want to be held

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]]> but isn’t it just time
to simply hold each other

but some people
just don’t want to be held

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]]> 3818 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3815-2/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:44:30 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3815 may   be  every thing  you want    is every thing  you can  do    and every thing  that’s been taken from you  is every thing  you never needed 

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]]> may  

be 

every thing 

you want 

 

is every thing 

you can 

do 

 

and every thing 

that’s been taken from you 

is every thing 

you never needed 

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]]> 3815 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3812-2/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:35:44 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3812 i don’t think we were prepared   to have such quiet lives   and to see who we’ve become 

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]]> i don’t think we were prepared  

to have such quiet lives  

and to see who we’ve become 

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]]> 3812 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3805-2/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:39:27 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3805 Does it seem like   Everything is happening now   And everything is true too?   Does it seem like   The dead are more alive now   And the living are more dead too?   […]

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]]> Does it seem like  

Everything is happening now  

And everything is true too?  

Does it seem like  

The dead are more alive now  

And the living are more dead too?  

 

Does it seem like  

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now  

Recycled cycles stories revolving reverbing echoing in barren chambers?  

 

Does it seem like  

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now  

Like maybe the moment  

Is more than just one moment  

Like maybe now  

Is not just now  

Like dead is not really dead 

Like living is not really living  

Does it seem like  

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now  

Time crashing on itself  

Into chaos  

Time banging like cymbals  

Sounds that came  

From centuries ago  

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]]> 3805 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3802-2/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:45:23 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3802 Does it seem like Everything is happening now And everything is true too? Does it seem like The dead are more alive now And the living are more dead too? […]

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]]> Does it seem like

Everything is happening now

And everything is true too?

Does it seem like

The dead are more alive now

And the living are more dead too?

 

Does it seem like

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now

Recycled cycles stories revolving reverbing echoing in barren chambers?

 

Does it seem like

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now

Like maybe the moment

Is more than just one moment

Like maybe now

Is not just now

Like dead is not really dead

Like living is not really living

Does it seem like

Everything that’s ever happened is happening now

Time crashing on itself

Into chaos

Time banging like cymbals

Sounds that came

From centuries ago

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]]> 3802 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3799-2/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:45:49 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3799 Don’t let the system  Steal our souls  We are more  Than just  Our discomfort

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]]> Don’t let the system 
Steal our souls 
We are more 
Than just 
Our discomfort

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]]> 3799 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3786-2/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:11:27 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3786 When the portal got opened I think I got stuck I think I Wedged my way through a wormhole And my body said Slow Go slower So that no time […]

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]]> When the portal got opened
I think I got stuck

I think I
Wedged my way through a wormhole
And my body said
Slow

Go slower
So that no time passes
Go slower so that you fall
Through the clouds
And maybe
Oh there’s thunder to fall through too

When the portal got opened
I think I got stuck

I think I
Wedged my way through a wormhole
And my body said
Slow

Go slower
So that no time passes
Go slower so that you fall
Through the clouds
And maybe
Oh there’s thunder to fall through too

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]]> 3786 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3783-2/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:41:04 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3783 The problem with today Is that it is not tomorrow  The problem with here Is that it is not there  The problem with now Is that it is not later  The problem with if Is that it […]

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]]> The problem with today 
Is that it is not tomorrow 
 
The problem with here 
Is that it is not there 
 
The problem with now 
Is that it is not later 
 
The problem with if 
Is that it is not is 
 
The problem with this 
Is that it is not that 
 
The problem with is 
Is that it is not if 
 
The problem is is 
An is can never be could 
Will never be would 
And an is is not a dream 

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]]> 3783 https://www.justinagrayman.com/3780-2/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:35:30 +0000 https://www.justinagrayman.com/?p=3780 i am afraid  of the night  getting lost in the dark    what really is it  without the dark  and can it really be itself    who is it without […]

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]]> i am afraid 
of the night 
getting lost in the dark 
 
what really is it 
without the dark 
and can it really be itself 
 
who is it without the dark 
and does it truly exist 
 
is the night just a shell for the dark 
or is it more 
than that

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