Our past is neither an accident nor a mistake. We have been where we needed to be, with the necessary people. We can embrace our history, with its pain, its imperfections, its mistakes, even its tragedies. It is uniquely ours; […]
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It’s About Today!
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin When I surrendered my desk of 20+ years, I removed a number of layers of […]
Continue reading »Thank You for Believing in Me.
Thank you for not judging g promise in me, for not taking your cues from me, seeing the miserable, lonely wretch I knew. Thank you for seeing me in terms of weight, dress size, for the dangling flap below my […]
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What in my life is bothering me today that I don’t want to face? Age. I assumed I’d live long since my patents and grandparents did. But there’s nobody older than me within the third degree of con sanguinity since […]
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What was the big deal, going to a meeting? She knew what they did there though not from having tried it. Heck, she’d even read the “Standard Meeting Format” and knew how robotic, how rote memory, how repetitious it was. […]
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