I have a right to take up space. I have a right to exist. I take in and give out life fully and freely. ~ Louise Hay, Love Your Body Clutter. Hoarding. Collecting. Piles. Metaphors for making room, for claiming […]
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Red Rover Red Rover
Nine years old, the new girl in town… a little town, no strangers, just friends — except me. They tried to count me in. One little boy wanted to call me to run from our line, break through his. He […]
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We are rarely proud when we are alone. ~ Voltaire False fronts don’t work when you build them, maintain them, prop them up. Well, maybe for others, for strangers, sometimes even — perhaps for mere moments — with family and […]
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Can the patient be saved? Depends on what you mean. Her immortal soul? Oh, yeah. These martyrs have it made. She’s lived in hell through a marriage with a lout. Nothing post mortem could phase her. Pshaw. You know that’s […]
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What is dignity without honesty? ~ Cicero Pomp and splendor are bling and glitz when the emperor struts proudly – but bare. Learned speeches and eloquent locution may draw applause and adoration, lionization and emulation. But vocabulary and articulation remain […]
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