What I do for a living is to reparent people. ~ Debbie Rowland We share the stories of our lives and currents crisscross them, themes, often of domineering parents, on insecure mothers raising insecure daughters, of perfectionist fathers demanding flawless progeny. […]
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I Don’t Remember
They said I would lie for hours in a bassinet with a Raggedy Ann propped in the corner, babbling to her on and on, engrossed in the conversation, content with the company. They said…but they’re gone now. They told the […]
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Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them” — before the sun and the light and the moon and […]
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I bought a 70th birthday card… and didn’t send it, a silly card declaring a desire to not grow older. She was in the hospital on the birthday. Forty-nine days later she was gone. Who but a lawyer would think […]
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Why are favor and disgrace alarming? Seeking favor is degrading: alarming when it is gotten, alarming when it is lost. ~ The Tao Verse 13 Seeking favor. Trying to make someone like me. Doing favors for favors, for attention, for […]
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