My false front was so exhausting I had to make it up to myself somehow, and the one sure way to do that was to eat. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1870-1871). I would have told you the easy way […]
Continue reading »Too Far
Only those willing to risk going too far can find out how far they can go. ~ T.S. Elliot You ask me to do this but it’s too large, too foreign, I’m not comfortable there. You say I’m ready to […]
Continue reading »Chosen Pain
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. ~ Kahlil Gibran Who would choose pain? Certainly my answer is no… but in 1997 a rotator cuff, the […]
Continue reading »Grabbing Hold of Willingness
When I have the willingness to admit I don’t have the willingness, that’s when my program works. ~ Jim H There’s praying for willingness, for willingness to be willing, for willingness to be willing to be willing… but one step […]
Continue reading »Intellectual Healing
My father and his cousin reminisced some 80 years, speaking of their Grandpa’s mules, his bass voice, life on the farm. I scribbled notes, history from unlikely men. Then through their tales I met the man; his life and mine came […]
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