I’m busy doing a whole lot of nothing. It takes up a surprising amount of time. Within the nothing, I’ve painted the mudroom, done a bunch of exercising with the FitOn app (it’s awesome and free, though I did pay twenty or so dollars for the advanced options), and met my new orthopedic surgeons. They don’t think I need a hip replacement yet (yay!), but … Continue reading Reblog: “Complementary states: we aren’t made for one thing.”
I struggle with general anxiety disorder, which can manifest itself in unpleasant ways. For years, my main coping skill was my eating disorder. It’s hard to obsess about anything else when you’re bingeing and purging. Eating disorders, however, get you dead, and though I’ve tried to “shuck off this mortal coil” while in the pit of despair, I mostly don’t want to be gone. Enter … Continue reading Reblog: A Nickel For Your Presence.
We start learning with our first breath, and from what I can tell, it’s a pattern that continues. Unless you close yourself off from it, learning for people happens to infinity and beyond. I like to learn, though we all have different things that grab us. I like this, and you like that, which has been true since it all began. It’s a good thing; … Continue reading Life lessons: catch them, don’t duck.
Query: How many challenges have you overcome? Dude, you don’t have that kind of time. [i] Plus, I don’t always want to go there. I don’t think you have to include trigger warnings everywhere – I do not drop the shit on everything – but I’m surprised sometimes by the things that set me off. The brain is a weird and wonderful animal. It’s not … Continue reading Should we tell the children that life is pain?
From Famine to Feast 