Do you go from Kroger to Safeway, from Sonic to McDonald’s, from bakery to confectionery so no one clerk see how much you will eat? Do you begin a diet each Monday and by noon bemoan its demise? Do you […]
Continue reading »Fingers and Fingerprints
We are as unique as our fingerprints, but as our fingers join in the closing prayer, each of us is part of a circle of hope that is greater than any of our individual differences. ~ Courage to Change, Page […]
Continue reading »Compassion
Clearly I didn’t know what compassion was, but I knew what it was not. Compassion was not seeking revenge, holding a grudge, calling names, or screaming and throwing things in anger. Yet that was how I frequently behaved toward this […]
Continue reading »But When I Do…
Kerboom. Pulling the trigger… trigger foods, that is. Eating and eating and eating way past discomfort, miles beyond full, an astonishing amount I’d rather not put words to, I’d prefer you not see… my comfort foods that only long ago really […]
Continue reading »Living Amends to the Universe
I know who I was, what I was, how low lay the bottom. I know I constituted a blob, a pile of poop on the world’s rug. And then I changed and learned of the need to make amends. How […]
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