We are compulsive eaters. We have been for a while and so we’ve learned the diets, the tricks, the quick fixes, the mind games, the wardrobe gimmicks. We’ve joined programs, paid great sums, clipped plans from magazines, tried them, succeeded […]
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Eating Vegetables
I ate like a Hoover but seldom were vegetables anything more than a ruse, a pretense that healthy food passed my lips. I ate veggies in public and binged on pastries, ice cream, raw dough… anything that wasn’t green or […]
Continue reading »The Passage of Time
Enormous problems, seismic change, life and death matters, literally and seemingly… Ancient resentments, exposed trauma, long blocked but harrowing, devastating, though not understood, confusing, depressing… overcome. Understanding flowing forward, relentless waves bringing change sometimes rapid, sometimes inching glacially, moving forward, […]
Continue reading »The Winter of My Discontent
Only when I surrender, after desperation encompasses and devastates, destroying hope can I find the courage to step out, to try what seems madness, to accept that I can, someone else may know even if they are normal…not even normal […]
Continue reading »Feel the Love
A stranger, I walked into the rooms, scared, hurting, terrified to come, expecting failure in due course, like immediately. It felt different, though, warmer, like hope lurked, flirting around my chair. Like love — and I grew to believe you […]
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