I awoke Wednesday morning to a surprise I had never expected to receive. Aaron Lamb, renowned sexual predator and businessman, had made an attempt to call me at 3am the morning of December 1, 20201. So I did what any savvy rape survivor would do – I call my local dispatch center to report the harassment to my local police department.
Read the full post »Not just another Wednesday morning!
Posted by Jacqueline on December 2, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/02/not-just-another-wednesday-morning/
A call at 3am from a rapist
Posted by Jacqueline on December 1, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/12/01/a-call-at-3am-from-a-rapist/
Aaron Lamb is a Rapist
Aaron Michael Lamb (DOB 02/14/1975) is a sexual predator and a rapist. I was not his first victim and will surely not be his last. He raped me in my own bed one April night in 2021. I thought he was someone who could be trusted, but I was very wrong.
Posted by Jacqueline on November 24, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/11/24/aaron-lamb-is-a-rapist/
Tristan & Isolde – my own words (part one)
Tristan is an orphan boy from Cornwall. Isolde is an Irish princess. After a viscous battle, Tristan is injured and presumed dead. His comrades build him a floating pyre, but as it drifts into the ocean the pyres fails to catch fire. Tristan drifts unconscious across the sea until he lands on the edge of Ireland. There, he is discovered by the princess Isolde out taking the morning air. Immediately, she recognizes he is injured and his wounds need tending. So she finds him a small shelter on the beach where she brings him herbs and medicines to dress his wounds in secret. If the young British man were to be discovered on Irish soil, he would surely be interrogated, tortured, and killed. So Isolde kept him a secret to only herself and her handmaid.
Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on November 11, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/11/11/tristan-isolde-my-own-words-part-one/
Tristan & Isolde
The tale of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most influential romances in the medieval period. It predated and influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere.
Originally, the Tristan legend had nothing to do with King Arthur, but shortly after the Vulgate Cycle (or Lancelot-Grail cycle) in c. 1235, the Prose Tristan, the hero had joined the fellowship of the Round Table.
There are two main traditions of the Tristan legend. The early tradition comprised of the romances from two French poets from the second half of the twelfth century – Thomas and Beroul. Their sources could be trace back to the original, archetype Celtic romance.
Later traditions come from the Prose Tristan (c. 1240), which was markedly different from the earlier tales written by Thomas and Beroul. The Prose Tristan became the official medieval tale of Tristan and Isolde that would provide the materials for Sir Thomas Malory, the English author, who wrote the Le Morte d’Arthur (c. 1469).
Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on November 7, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/11/07/tristan-isolde/
Dearest Jon,
I am sorry to be such a wimp, but this just hurts too much. I should say all this to your face in your presence. Despite all my strength, I cannot bring myself to make the drive out to see you only to return home feeling lonelier than I’ve felt since the morning of June 2nd, 2015. Please forgive me.
Truly yours,
Jacqueline
P.S. You don’t have to read the four-page enclosure.
P.P.S. Remember to schedule yourself a dental appointment!
*****
Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on November 7, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/11/07/dearest-jon/
Coming back to the blog while coming back to myself
10/15/2021
As we head towards the end of another year, I too seem to be reaching the end of something. This ending of mine is a difficult thing to define. In that way it is somewhat like the border between childhood and becoming an adult. There isn’t really a line, but you know that at some point back there you’ve crossed it and there is no going back. The only choice is to keep moving forward.
Read the full post »Posted by Jacqueline on October 15, 2021
https://justonetake.com/2021/10/15/coming-back-to-the-blog-while-coming-back-to-myself/
Anger and its role in processing grief
The grief resulting from the death of a loved one knows not the passage of time. There are five stages of grief according to the late psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler Ross. In 1969, she first laid out her theory of these five stages in her best-selling book On Death and Dying. This paradigm on the process of grieving is not new and has become familiar to professionals and lay people alike.
Posted by Jacqueline on April 23, 2020
https://justonetake.com/2020/04/23/anger-and-its-role-in-processing-grief/
How it ends thus far
I’ll tell you how the story ends. It’s me living alone in a subsidized apartment downtown. There is currently an infestation of “drain gnats” and since I cannot afford bleach or drain cleaner, I’m attempting to deal with them by boiling copious amounts of water and pouring it down the pipes. However, the internet has informed me this is futile as the larvae can survive extreme heat. Now I have resorted to taping over every drain in my unit save for one – I feel like a crazy person doing this, but I’m not alone.
Posted by Jacqueline on April 20, 2020
https://justonetake.com/2020/04/20/how-it-ends-thus-far/
Dreaming of adventure?
During this time of pandemic, I’m surely not the only one dreaming of going some place new and unfamiliar as our apartments and houses slowly become all too familiar. Here’s a post from my friend Stan Wiebe to inspire us of all the places we may one day go.
Posted by Jacqueline on April 19, 2020
https://justonetake.com/2020/04/19/dreaming-of-adventure/
Just One Take 