Anger resides in the liver, I’m told. Spewing bile, a walking reservoir of venom, jealousy, enmity. Eat, they say, to fix it. Garlic, grapefruit, beets, lemons, greens… Maybe it helps, but other eating helps – abstinence. With a side of […]
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Procrastination
Interposing excessive ostentation exacerbates utilization of temporal increments in non-utilitarian methodologies camouflaging dilatory tendencies and circumventing engaging in proximate advantageous commodities. Recapitulating frequently utilizing insignificant deviations creates a semblance of consequential progression and further dissimulates the ultimate discernment that the tendency to […]
Continue reading »The Pinocchio Effect
It’s simple cause and effect, the desire to look good, the need to tell others what we want them to believe, our truth as we’ve constructed it. But the result isn’t an improved image but a lowered head…not really because […]
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I know I’m a compulsive overeater, that diets don’t work…for me. They work fine as a plan of eating but the diet idea, the willpower, the weigh-in-front-of-people-for-maximum-humiliation, the attagirls, the rewards you can add back in that for me start […]
Continue reading »Futility and Fatality
We have listed and analyzed our resentments. We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous (Kindle Location 1014). Who can rant and rave about wrongs perceived and entertain a wisp of a thought these resentments might be […]
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