Respectable

…there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~ Booker T. Washington What was respectable during childhood? Mother’s acceptable behaviors clashed with Grandmom’s, Daddy’s mom. And I took after Grandmom and the rejection rubbed […]

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My Right!

The riches of a full life are so easily mine, and so deservedly mine. ~ Casey, Karen. Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (Kindle Locations 1196-1206). Hazelden Publishing. I have a right to the good stuff! I deserve to laugh, […]

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A Recovery Haiban

Understanding never offered to you, interminable desperation lingers, your curse, your millstone, while your attempts to attain relief become dependence, then addiction, surrounded by fake friends as dysfunctional as you. You fantasize of a pipe dream community whose degradation paralleled […]

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