Tag: random musings
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Co-Morbidities Suck
How many layers does this onion have? Damn. 2 years ago, the total body pain and physical fatigue had gotten to a quality-of-life point. For 20 years, I’d dealt with increasing joint pain throughout my whole body. I was at a point where I was in bed 16 hours a day, just to function for…
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Autumn’s Arrival
Yesterday evening I noticed the leaves on certain trees are beginning to dry and curl, not in a diseased or dehydrated way. The green on most deciduous trees isn’t as vibrantly green as it was in June–there’s just a hint more yellow in it. Today I noticed the sunlight was different. A slightly different quality…
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The Bucket List
I started a bucket list about ten years ago. A cherished friend of mine passed suddenly, and it messed me up a bit. No one expected his death. Maybe he did, but everyone else I knew was surprised by it. A day after I got the news, I realized I had a crap-ton of unfinished…
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Learning Self-Care
I’m a mom and a chauffeur and a PA and a groundskeeper and… Yeah, you know the whine. This whole “set and maintain boundaries” thing is hard to do. Setting a schedule is probably what I need to do, like: pick up and put away 5 things a day, vacuum a room, walk the dogs,…
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Inspiration
Some of my best ideas for stories are traced back to dreams or objects. A few years ago, I saw this stationary set in my local post office: My mom squealed that she remembers that children’s book. I really don’t remember what she told me about the story. I assume it’s some tale about children…
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Existential Ennui
There’s a lot out there regarding liminal spaces. That weird state of in-between that is real but feels like it might not be. Playgrounds at night. The interior of houses under construction. Ghost towns. That 15-30 minutes right before the sun rises above the horizon. Those hugely long tunnels guiding traffic under mountains and water…
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