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Does hurt never end?
by M M.
views: 26 | rating: 10 | comments: 9
April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT -- An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . . more
June 04, 2007 10:39 AM EDT -- I begin my discussion of this important and controversial work with a caveat. I was brought up within the strictures of fundamentalist Christianity, a force I consider deeply virulent in the world. I have . . . more
April 27, 2007 08:41 AM EDT -- Today, I feel that my entire life is borrowed - from what or whom, I don't know. It's not the right color (sort of tan and gray) and it doesn't fit - tight in some places, baggy in others. . . . more
June 12, 2007 05:07 AM EDT -- Don't tear me a(par)t. My s(par)tan life (par)ts Like a stream. It de(par)ts As you close my a(par)tment door. (Par)ts of my rusted (par)titioned self Finally fail - the com(par)tments . . . more
April 17, 2007 11:36 PM EDT -- We edit the pain. This is how we survive. But it remains like shrapnel under skin and rises, and sometimes breaks the surface. But it does not break us. Sometimes it disfigures, or makes us perfect . . . more
May 09, 2007 04:57 PM EDT -- I cry. I sob, endlessly and uncontrollably. Sadness visited me today at work. An inconvenient, unwelcome guest. I went to the ladies' room and sat in a stall and sobbed. "Are you okay?" . . . more
Not What I Wanted . . .
by M M.
views: 21 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
April 15, 2007 08:03 PM EDT -- to do on a glorious Sunday afternoon in April. I went to bed. I slept for hours under a down quilt while children played in tank tops, neighbors walked their dogs, and the garden tugged at me like the . . . more
The Day Wrestles Me to the Ground
by M M.
views: 29 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 11
April 27, 2007 12:52 PM EDT -- Woke up sad, barely able to move, smell of burnt toast and the ashes of a bad day already begun - my son awake, three-thirty in the morning. Panic and pacing all night and I was afraid the house . . . more
April 30, 2007 11:43 AM EDT -- And the forsythia blooms. I hope it is in the right spot this year, gathering all of the sunlight my shady yard has to offer. I've lost three of them. This time I am careful to follow the planting . . . more
Ten Free Minutes: Word Game
by M M.
views: 14 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
June 18, 2007 11:21 AM EDT -- Ten Free Minutes: Word Game   My philosophy is as follows: Beg for ten free minutes, and then seize them. No, do not beg  for what is rightfully yours.   Just reach out your hand, . . . more
May 30, 2007 04:50 PM EDT -- Yes, and plenty of it - that is what it takes to survive. I did not think I would survive at age fourteen, when I swallowed a bottle of aspirin. Or the year that followed, after the mental hospital, . . . more
April 23, 2007 12:59 AM EDT -- Over the past several Sunday evenings, I have been watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel. A simply amazing series, much of it revolving around the ebb and flow of nature: spring and fall; night . . . more
 
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