Tag Archives: understanding
I am learning
I am learning that I have much learning to do. I am learning that what I thought I knew must be undone before anything can be known. I am learning that I have capacity to change and change is uncomfortable. Change makes me run – or at least tense my feet against the blocks. Unlearning means un-block-ing; stillness let me feel all […]
Perspective
Trigger warning: This post vividly describes bulimic behavior. I sat on the bathroom floor with a gallon of vanilla ice-cream positioned between my thighs. I’d arrived home from school, stripped off my jeans, pulled on gray cotton boxers shorts and headed for the freezer. Outside the temperature was spiking 92. I was hot, […]
Never an ill wind…
This morning I awoke with one sentence sitting quietly in my mind, “It’s an ill wind that blaws naebody any gude.” I know I was introduced to this Scottish proverb when I was little. I don’t remember when or how- that’s how the brain works. We just remember things sometimes. The gist of this proverb […]
dangerous opportunity 