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\"Screen<\/a>I think I was ten years-old the first time I was accused of living in \u201cLa La Land\u201d (by an impressionable 7th grade teacher). When I was a teenager, my parents (in an unfortunate turn of typical teen drama) learned that our small-town police network referred to me as \u201cQueen Yo Yo\u201d for the QYY prefixing my car license plate. And in my late 20s, a best (time-period) friend added the suffix \u201cLa La\u201d to my first name which he\u2019d sing down the paths of the beach resort we co-worked to call my attention. I woke up this morning looking for evidence that I sometimes live in my imagination \u2014 and I found this breadcrumb-trail of suspicious titles and nicknames. Of course, people can assign you all the adjectives they\u2019d like, but it\u2019s not until you\u2019ve experienced that worldview-flipping moment directly that any new self-realization truly registers. And I think it was in my early 30s when I looked deeper into my Myers-Briggs psychological type and learned that INFP<\/a>s often navigate a lofty inner world, oblivious to the fog of clouds between themselves and the other 96% of the population. Now I am in constant question of my reality in comparison to others: Is what I\u2019m seeing more colorful, more mysterious, more interconnected, more breath-breathing, than what others are encountering? Has the web of my imagination woven all events and people into charmed caricatures of their otherwise more grey and grounded realities? Do I search my dreams (night and day) for links to this world that would only stand up the court of La La? As a citizen of the clouds, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever know. Instead, I simply offer the disclaimer, to both the reader and the writer, of the unofficial titles of loft and levity affixed to my name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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