Who is it I cannot live without? Nobody. Surely I value people, relish time with them, can’t imagine not having them… love them with all my heart. But need need not linger, has no place in health. Only my higher […]
Continue reading »The End of the World
What’s to happen at the end of the world? What precursors, indicators, evidence? A bang or a whimper, man-made or natural? Will it feel like the end of the world? Will I worry about it, dread it, fear it, party […]
Continue reading »Celebrations of This Day
The celebrations of this day will be over at midnight, and tomorrow I will wake up glad to be alive and abstinent. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1483-1484). Every day is someone’s birthday, most named to honor a group or […]
Continue reading »Curly Fry Crumb
I walk in the door, fresh from a phone call where I want to rescue a woman for rescuing, want to give money when I’d said that was all. I’ve not dealt with it well, second- and third-thinking my path. […]
Continue reading »My Biography
Then, horrified by what we were doing to ourselves with food, we became obsessed with diets. We spent hundreds of dollars on weight-loss schemes, we bought all sorts of appetite-control drugs, we joined diet clubs and spas, we had ourselves […]
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