Tag: Self Care
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The Memory Miles
Like so much of the past it just disappears and floats away to become shelf fodder at the local thrift store
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The Welcome Rain
Hobbes came to us through the ultimate grapevine, our back porch at a large apartment complex.
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Cornerstones
It’s sad in hindsight because now the pace of life is faster than I find comfortable with at all.
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Life in Atrophy
Maybe that’s the reason why this works for some so well, finding that the biggest mountain to climb is the one that crawls so deep.
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Larger Than Life
Because I cannot fathom a moment in life when I didn’t have him there with a call, his voice carrying that of four men, his hands another knuckle in size.
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Winchester’s Ghost
That left me trying to piece together and scout around at what was left over, the foundational pieces of who I am. I found the pieces that I could change, that didn’t hold weight any longer, and those that never did.
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Just Don’t Stay
What happened felt like I was taking a long run at a moving train in hopes I could tackle it and derail the thinking that had rutted my tracks so deeply.
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Lose Yourself
What also ran into all of this was a realization that there is no there, that I’ve been looking for.
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Letting it Cook
Those reminders of the basics, and letting what you know now set in for a bit, make a bed, stay a night or two, are imperative to remember.
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Joy 2.0
It is a practice in acceptance, a discovery of more tolerance, and a space clearing exercise that helps in these confined times.
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The Spirit and the Squirrel
to throw them at the wall like spaghetti to see if they’ll stick. Almost a character study in a vampire’s life, there’s nothing looking back at me when I check the mirror.
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The Self Pattern
If you get hit by a car it will probably hurt, the sky is blue, and pigs don’t fly.
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Grafting the Tree
Writing was always a form of therapy, typing the thoughts out often makes things clearer, I see where my mistakes were made, or where the juxtaposition of my thinking took a header off the cliff.
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To All Our Affairs
“but those 12 suggestions I followed on the walls of the rooms of AA have left me more capable than ever before to deal with this pandemic.”
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By All Means
So, with twenty drafts of the same story piling up, it is clear that that piece of the puzzle is just going to have to come into focus in a different manner. The size of the thoughts too large to fit through the doorway of a single post.
