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The Sacred Season
My heart feels really sore and fragile today. I’m entering the sacred season of the year for me – I am now within 2 weeks of the anniversary of my sisters’ deaths. December 9, 2007… almost 6 years ago....
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The Unwinding Cable Car (Or – The Day My Sisters Died, Part 1)
I have told this story over and over, sometimes to an audience of one, and sometimes to the audience of the world. Although if you asked, I couldn’t tell you what words I stumbled over in the Good...
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Alexithymia (The Day My Sisters Died – Part 2)
Trigger Warning: I know several people are reading who have also been through a similar experience to mine. In light of this, please know that some of this post may be disturbing to you. Please monitor...
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Intermission
Hello, all. Just wanted to let you know that part 3 is still coming. I’ve been on vacation in Mexico this past week (hooray for vacation and the beach!) and haven’t had the mental space to try to write...
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The Patron Saint of Lost Causes (The Day My Sisters Died, Part 3)
If you are just joining in, I invite you to read Part 1 and Part 2, here and here. ——- (St. Jude – The Patron Saint of Desperate Cases and Lost Causes) “If this is salvation, I can show you the...
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Late Have I Loved You – 100th post
(My twin sister loved this painting.) I miss my twin. I’ve missed her like hot, searing fire lately… right down to the bone. My skin melting off, charred ash… and the bones still ache, and the ash...
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Stay Here With Me
There is a spoken word poem by Andrea Gibson that is my love poem to myself. It’s called The Madness Vase/The Nutrionist. I heard it in person last week when she was here for a sold-out show in...
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Food Stamps and American Poverty
I’ve had a poem in my head around this subject for a good week-ish now. It all happened after I stopped into Local First Grocer, a local food co-op that only sources local food. I asked if they take...
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This is Real
It is so frustrating when I am in the middle of making dinner and realize I need another pan, but I take one look at what I’d have to do to get one, and I completely shut down. I decide not to wilt the...
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Shell
I am sharing a very vulnerable piece of my heart today, over on the blogging collective I’m involved with: The Sisterwives. I would love it if you would please go view this piece. It took a lot of guts...
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