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Tag: Life

  • Love Letter

    Writing is the one thing that always helps me process the experiences life brings. Writing has also been fraught most of my life for various reasons (a story which is out of the scope of today’s missive), but letters have been a staple for me, nonthreatening. Nothing comes up as a barrier to writing letters,…

  • I Choose Water.

    Most every day, since the fall of 2019 (northern hemisphere), when I took Reiki and learned the symbols, I have been blessing my drinking water. I pour it into my water bottle, draw the symbols on it, then hold it in both hands and repeat my mantra three times: “I love you. God bless you.…

  • Summer Solstice

    Bless you who are in the dark–may you find light in everyday things. This blessing is a product of great pain. It was only through accepting my pain–the fact of it–instead of struggling against it that I began to find comfort in the everyday. The plain, homely events and interactions that are the true bread…

  • Foreplay

    We’re in the bathroom performing bedtime ministrations–he’s brushing his teeth, I’m sitting on the toilet. I wonder aloud, “Has anyone ever written a song about Bartleby the Scrivener?” and he grunts, talking toothpaste like I understand. Then I’m brushing my teeth and he’s on the toilet, and he says, “Barbeque This Prisoner?” and it’s lucky…