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I am taking a class… well … actually two classes. Trying to finish my master’s degree. So, anyway, I have to change a behavior as a project in my Behavior Intervention class. Or in my case, restart a behavior. I have chosen writing. I need to write. I long to have oodles of time to…
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I stood there in the dark silence of the chapel with the stain glass face of Christ looking in at the pews. His hole pierced hands showing an anguish I felt. No one was here, not in this space or time, yet I sounds of a movie floated above me from the back wall. …
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I remember Grandma DeKezel, her colostomy bag full and oozing. I remember smiling and chattering and easing her discomfort of being dependent upon my hands. I remember her talk of sex and the loathing she had when Grandpa would touch her – until she was 30. I remember the smile…
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Okay, so God is leading me. I am following Him. I am doing all that He is asking me to do. But there is this time lapse thing I just don’t understand. Well, I do, but it is frustrating. Let me back up a little bit and bring you up to speed on what God…
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Her hands were bony and strong. Not the hands of youth with its demand to have power and control. No, her hands were strong from living life and a “hold onto me” strength. Those hands held onto me through the entire benediction. At the end there was that extra squeeze. I give it too. It’s…
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I was on the bike path following the Mississippi River, and there was this thick fog hovering over the top of the Great Mississippi. The fog’s tentacles reached out to the bike path trying to lure me into the river. Fog is an amazing thing. I’m on one side of it and can see clearly,…
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When I went through Army basic training, I had to learn how to read a map and use a compass to navigate my way through the woods. Needless to say, I was not good at this. My sense of direction is always backwards. And while I can read a road map, reading a topographical…
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On the Cusp.
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I am on the cusp of a new life. I can feel it deep within me, bubbling to the surface. There are dreams/goals that are finding their way up to the front again. As I am on this journey to lose weight I am finding who I want to be once again. To lose weight I…
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