It could happen that in the morning you have (not so unexpectedly) awoken the bear after a fitful sort of night sugar indulged night sweats and a sore neck it will stay with you, this bear carrying flashing signs of trauma and shame attaching them to your heels to drag behind, as if being…
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(first thing, let me tell you right here today, I am annoyed knowing this if you feel inclined to read on it should be begun with a suitable furrowedscowl) I ask him, with a deep sigh Do you ever wonder about your own usefulness in…
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Last year, at this time our daughter was on her way home her first year of college unavoidably interrupted for what we hoped would be a short-ish time a full year later, still in a hot zone nothing normal has resumed a wholly disappointing halt to something so…
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Feels a bit like it’s been the longest monththis week,(and today’s only Wednesday)I have this friend (ya know)who finds herself once again, so very frustratedby work, that she is (not completely)powerless to changeand being the wise woman that I amI…
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Yesterday morning beginswith thinking about someone I am most grateful foran auntand how I might tell herjust because this is what I’m thinking today(wondering if she might think this weird) the afternoon comes with attendingan online funeral streamwith my brother-in-law…
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Again we find ourselves surrounded on all sidesby the great weight of lossa few days ago a dear heart from high school daysstill young enough for us to feel as if it was only yesterday,passes away in the nightthis morning…
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This morning my hand feels as if it’s being twistedpainfully against its willits been overworkeda day off, I am sunk into my chair of comfortreading about the brainand how it workswhile across from me he goes from paperto book, to…
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For me sometimes, it is necessary to spill things out in words a wise friend says, just begin… and then, keep going… so I do, (what I want to say to you is this,while I hope you will continue reading…
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