@GirlVersusGame I was hoping to get back to you sooner but the first week of school is always a bit crazy for us…Hopefully you’ve been able to find a way to get some proper sleep! I’m glad to hear that you have journaling and painting as an outlet, even if you don’t typically share them with anyone, though I appreciate your willingness to share some here!

Speaking for myself, I’d lose my mind if I didn’t have the creative outlets I do. I don’t know how else to make sense of the world and my place in it; how else do I process my lived experience and emotions in, as you say, a clearly unbalanced world?

Balance is interesting, isn’t it? In my mind, it’s a different metric than equality, or fairness. Balance is relative and fairness is a judgement whereas equality is absolute; the hard reality is that none of this actually determines outcome, which is largely out of our control. This realization is actually a submission. On an existential level, I choose to submit to the idea of an absolute truth. That’s my balance. And that journey will look a lot different for everyone.

There is so much that we don’t know, yet we have to live by our personal convictions, it’s the only authentic way of living. I can’t imagine doing life without a sene of wonder as to what’s really out there. You’ve had a harrowing experience, and given me loads to think about, thank you.

That ufo pic is awesome, by the way. The one I saw had a white light. Do you think these sightings mean they are physically here and fully crossed over or is the veil (membrane) just momentarily lifting, offering us a glimpse of the other side?

@Metonymy I spent a couple of hours writing you a reply and switched time-zones too so it's heading towards six in the AM, I'll definitely have to post it in pieces. Which I'll do after sleep, I shared a lot of those experiences, those people 'up there', it was both emotional and cathartic, I have hundreds of pages of journals so I wasn't sure what to include but you'll see sometime tomorrow. I tried to focus on the science because like I told you before it was all some kind of unknown science and closer to quantum mechanics and theoretical physics than it was to little grey guys or little green guys or the man upstairs with the sandals and the beard. You'll definitely need coffee or something, it's not all that 'out there', it's just rather long. So I'll pop back tomorrow and see about getting it posted.

That ufo pic is awesome, by the way

• Wait till you see one of the foxes.