Maybe my job is to bloom, but how? Do you know what you’re asking? You want me to step out, to expose myself to ridicule, to ask people to look at me, not avert their eyes… I figure you’re right, […]
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This Wall
It’s Styrofoam, you know. The wall between you and me. I used to think it solid, to believe it impenetrable. Born on the wrong side, I didn’t fit in, a stranger among you. You showed me, though, the confusion, the […]
Continue reading »Finding Humility
…a poor self-image keeps us in bondage to self and thus makes it impossible for us to find true humility. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Location 718). Thinking myself useless, ugly, a failure can’t […]
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RIGHTSIZE – transitive verb : to reduce (as a workforce) to an optimal size – intransitive verb : to undergo a reduction to an optimal size (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rightsize) I’ve been larger than life, a mouse not worth noticing, microscopic, germ-sized, nothing. […]
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“Any action, no matter how small, will help us to overcome deadly procrastination.” ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, p. 31 Sloth in five syllables. Chronic low-intensity fear. Sluggardly, lazy, at a snail’s pace… Put off […]
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