Abstinence. So hard-won. Fear. So gargantuan. Craving. So precipitous. Temptation. So pervasive. Insanity. So inexorable. Life. So unmanageable. Food. So duplicitous. Regret. So nauseating. Contrition. So inevitable.
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Letting the Balloon Drift
Forgiving is not forgetting but it’s letting go, not thinking of, releasing. Like imagining the hurt, slipping it into Mylar, inflating the balloon watching it drift away. Forgetting can be harmful if past behavior must serve to warn of need […]
Continue reading »Flotsam
Broken lives, flotsam on the shore sought out, gathered, dried out, mended… like found art, the best, the closest to real art set out, lovely to look at, not copies but real art, the hard edges rounded, ugly courseness softened. […]
Continue reading »The Cabbage Patch
The seeds are so little. And there are lots in the package. I planted them all. But what do you do with all that cabbage? We didn’t like to eat cabbage, not that much. That little package of tiny seeds […]
Continue reading »Forecast
The future is an enigma for the most part, but not always. For one thing, I know mine should I decide to go it alone, to leave these rooms of recovery. If I fall back into the food… and if […]
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