Why anguish over days past or worry over those to come? When we pigeonhole bits of time with such words and concepts we bedeck them with feelings of despair or of anxiety, quailing at presumed or anticipated failure but when […]
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Like a Radio
Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. ~ Jim Morrison Carry pain like a radio. Well, not many folks do… carry radios, that is. I trooped through the grocery today, […]
Continue reading »Traffic In My Head
When I’m in my car, the GPS system will alert me if there is upcoming traffic. The other day, Jack was in the car with me and such an alert came up. Jack’s response,”Mommy, why did it say there’s traffic […]
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These are the products of my self-centered fear: negativity, anxiety, living in a future not yet formed with an ungrateful heart. I see only what my disease has taken from me — everything that I “deserved.” ~ Voices of Recovery […]
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 […]
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