It’s black and white, of course, the picture made in 1947, small in size, and she and I are not greatly different sizes. I lie in the bassinet, babbling, smiling, laughing. After all, Mother was busy, Daddy away, my four-year-old […]
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Wants and Needs
We are taught to differentiate between our wants (which are never satisfied) and our needs (which are always provided for). We cast off the burdens of the past and the anxieties of the future, as we begin to live in […]
Continue reading »The Thinking Obsession
Cognitive addictions are a powerful way to avoid feelings. I lived in my head for years. I was a university professor. Thinking can be a way to avoid feelings. All addictions have a thinking component, which is called obsession. ~ […]
Continue reading »In Wellness Here (II)
Come on in, we’re all in wellness here. Wanting wellness. It’s what I’ve pursued all my life. Am I willing to make the offer, but unwilling to have the offer accepted? Why? Mother told me what clothes to wear, packed […]
Continue reading »Elastic Time
Too full a month, a week, a day. Things to do, lists to make to do all the things to do. Twenty-four hours, A thousand four hundred forty minutes, Eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds, all of them full, all committed, […]
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