The Bracelet Slinger Blog

  • And now I can have LOVE

    But my mother, ME, HEI JUNG LEE, along the way, through this long and lonely silenced journey, has taught me how to love. Truly love. By listening. Listening to my intuition. Listening to others and learning through them. Listening to everything around me with not just my ears, but my eyes, feelings, and mind. And how to finally fully listen to myself. So I could FIND...
  • Now I have the TRUTH

    I just learned to survive, survive, survive just to learn that life is HARD and often has those moments of what are we here for? But in the unbearable moments when you’re frozen in darkness, you fight for the light, you run toward the truth, and it’ll remind you why we are here. And that’s...
  • And now I’m taking back MY NAME

    My name is HEI JUNG LEE! The name you never learned how to pronounce. The only REAL mother Linn Daugherty ever had. And I’ve finally found my way back to her. And I AM HERE FOR HER! And I’M SHOWING UP! And just like a mother is supposed to be I AM FUCKING FIERCE WHEN IT COMES TO GOING OFF MY INTUITION, SO I CAN PROTECT, FIGHT FOR, and KNOW WHEN TO HOLD A SCREAMING BABY!
  • Happy Martin Luther King JR Day

    Thank you BLACK LIVES for showing me the ropes that you’ve been HANGING from ALL THIS TIME. It’s through your suffering that I could FINALLY see my own and hear my SCREAMS. And I hope to fucking god that I didn’t step on any of you to get where I am now.
  • And now I’m taking back MY LIFE

    You wouldn’t recommend adoption? Now I know why. Because I won’t carry your shit for you. Just because you can’t survive on your own, without the narcissist to feed off of, and you can’t hold all his rage, doesn’t mean I have to.
  • And now I’m taking back my VOICE

    By quieting me all you did is teach me to get louder.

    You know what happens to a screaming baby? They’ll scream and scream until eventually they get really quiet and learn that nobody’s coming. Then they learn to survive on their own. But if you do it too long, the screams get louder from deep inside - so loud they start to leak...
  • I got my fucking eyes back!

    These people have been breaking me with their lies since the day they got me. They’ve blinded me. They’ve turned the lights off on me!! And I’ve spent my whole life trying to put all the pieces together ALONE. And seeing through their lies. And seeing in the dark!!
    I was just missing one piece. One piece! The most painful one of all. They don’t...
  • I See You

    I am so grateful for 2020. It put a magnifying glass over the toxicity that I never saw before.

    Narcissists need all the money and power because they didn’t get enough love in their childhood...so they think by hoarding all the money and power and being in control of how it is distributed that then people will love them...but that’s not real love...so they keep digging themselves into a deeper hole...
  • Thoughts from the Frozen Road

    Honestly, the physical and financial stress is the easiest of everything...in fact, it might be the only thing distracting me from some bigger problems that are completely out of my control. As for the physical challenges, all it takes is focusing on what is in my control and being able to triage what needs immediate attention and what can wait. Sometimes I wonder if I am so attracted to a lifestyle that walks the line between basic surviving and millennial...
  • The Tiniest Light

    The purest happiness is felt when you have next to nothing and still are able to feel happiness.  It’s a wild sort of happiness that makes you feel on top of the world even though you’re at the bottom.  It’s the happiness that money can’t buy and nothing on Earth can take...
  • Winter Pandemic Vanlife

    Living out of a van, in the middle of winter, during a pandemic is not luxurious, romantic, and hardly a fun adventure. The van turns into the inside of a dark refrigerator at 5:45 p.m. and due to the pandemic, I pretty much avoid going out on the town unless for a brisk walk through the neighborhoods before my ears start to sting. I then return to the van and avoid...
  • Freedom is my Favorite Feeling

    I wandered about the streets of Austin today...made myself a little plan to go off of that didn’t have any sort of purpose other than to replace the “what the fuck am I going to do?”- feeling, with the on the road and everywhere is in front of me feeling.  It’s a good feeling...backpack on my back, doesn’t matter what I look...