Mother, you see my misery, my inability to lose weight, to live a normal life and you want to tell me, to show me, what worked when you were there. I can see you’ve changed, you’re different, but it’s your […]
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The Old Man
Twenty years ago I had no hope, entombed in addiction, frail of body, devoid of friendship, spiritually bankrupt, an old man at the end of my rope at forty. Today I live hope, radiate possibility, have not yielded to my […]
Continue reading »Puce!
One day long ago (The forty-third day of 1998, precisely) I was asked to explain my essence by color. Immediately I knew… I was gray, neither black nor white, but gray, safe. Somber, solemn, resting, monotone gray. I moved in […]
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What feelings have been given to me that don’t belong to me? ~ Glenn Beck What feelings have been given me? Then I can sort out which don’t belong. Guilt. Is guilt a feeling. I feel guilty listing guilt as […]
Continue reading »Climbing a Rope
We cannot climb up a rope that is attached only to our own belt. ~ William Ernest Hocking Powerless. Unable to manage. I’m fiercely independent, want to shout in my little me voice, “I can do it by myself!!” but […]
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