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Shine Once Again.
“Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” ~Maya Angelou I don’t know what to blog about the show with Oprah and 200 Adult Children of Sexual abuse, men whose boyhood was stolen and now their manhood too… Continue reading
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Sprouting Self Hatred
As I headed to my room to do yoga with my belly unsettled, images of the laughing sisters, my demeanor glum, I wondered how yoga would be. The standing poses went by without a hitch, but as I lay on… Continue reading
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The Wise Listened
I only spent one hour in her presence and wanted to follow her home, and in fact we may have been behind her motor home as she left our town, I had the chance but turned off as our road… Continue reading
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Cheering for the Butterfly!
We would rather be ruined than changed;We would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die. ~W.H. Auden As I sit in the graveyard of my illusions, I am left with merging… Continue reading
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One Real Me
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.” ~Abraham Lincoln I love the simplicity of how this shows you can name anything… Continue reading
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Annihilate My Truth
My brother wrote about the word annihilation and I had never looked at what it meant, yet I too have used the word, but now I want to see how it is applied. Words to me are much more… Continue reading
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I Didn’t Forgive Her
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers – and men, their fathers – all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior. ~Mignon McLaughlin The above quote caught my… Continue reading
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United together without abuse.
“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What is the something that binds a family together, what binds sisters… Continue reading
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Shamelessly Me
“Yoga Makes you you” is what Bikram says near the end of the 90 minutes of yoga, and until today I had always envisioned a new me. Today I realized that I get to be me minus the shame.… Continue reading