dying

  • Freedom

    Martha Beck writes in Leaving the Saints, "My defection from Mormonism changed me in the same way Adam's disability did: it became an open-ended tragedy that I wouldn't give up for anything in the universe. (not even my own planet)… Continue reading

  • The Stranger Among them.

    At times it is very interesting to be me, to actually watch reactions to me while being me.  I have changed my ideals and the way I live my life.  I have totally flipped and it shows in the reactions… Continue reading

  • Hand and Hand.

    All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France Somehow I missed the melancholy of… Continue reading

  • Birthing the New Me.

    “How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.” ~Robert Brault This paragraph sums up how it is that I began my journey to find myself, in… Continue reading

  • Turn My Light Back On.

    While listening to Tyler Perry talk to Oprah about his abuse as a child, he speaks of how when his father beat him, he would escape to a park in his mind, but on one occasion, he recalls the beating… Continue reading

  • Keep Dyeing.

    Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.  John W. Gardner   When I looked at my photographs of the dyed fabric, I noticed below that nature too was dyeing.  Snow was disappearing into colors of spring and new… Continue reading

  • No One Can Do It For You.

    I first heard about the five stages of grief in Forgiveness from Connie Domino and her book “The Law of Forgiveness,” which I have not read, yet.   I heard her in a conversation about how feelings and thoughts have… Continue reading