It’s 10:18 on Monday morning and I am still lying in bed where I have been for the past 3 hours, both too tired to get up and too awake to sleep when my phone buzzes next to me. “Hi, mom”, I answer. “Hi honey. Okay, now listen, I don’t want you to get upset, but I was talking to…
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dear body, it’s all close to the surface now
dear body, take the trip.
Dear Body, I love how you are fully awake and present when we are in new places. There’s something about new sights, smells, and sounds that makes you sit up and pay attention in a different way. Or maybe it’s just how Time takes on a new attitude… how it speeds up and drags on during travel. How it teaches…
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dear body, this goes both ways, doesn’t it?
Usually when I write these letters to you, Body, once I finally get it all out, then cut it back a little (a lot), deciding which parts to share and which parts are not for up public consumption, usually by that point whatever bit of tension, whatever that fussy energy is that you carry whenever you can’t write, it dissipates…
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dear body, it’s the distrust, isn’t it?
We had a doctor’s appointment this week. It was the first of multiple. You woke up that day feeling jumpy, agitated, and nauseous. You always seem to be nauseous. I am trying not to be irritated with you about that. It’s hard some days. I just want to feel well and to eat well and to do life like normal. …
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dear body, you’re the real mvp
They say bad things always happen in threes. For us, they always happen in Springtime. There’s something about the juxtaposition of holding the harder, heavier, darker things of life up against such bright, warm, sunny skies that always makes me sit up, snap to, and really pay attention to my life. Spring carries with it an undeniable sense of hopefulness,…
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