“There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and in doing so become free.” ~ Ajahn Chah For me, rock bottom happened quietly. If you have ever watched the fluff from a shedding Cottonwood tree—a fuzzy, white, wispy thing […]
Depression; /dəˈpreSH(ə)n/; Noun
Today, I fed my depression. I gave it a huge plate of steaming, saucy pasta with cheese and tender meatballs. After that, I let it consume the remnants of a crinkled bag of chocolate chips, one after another. I gave it a bowl of frozen yogurt. I tried to stuff it down, to cover it, to […]
Hi. I’m a Middle-Aged Woman.
Hi. I’m a middle-aged woman. Yep. Kind of invisible these days, but guess what? It’s kind of AWESOME! If I’m going to live to be 95, which is pushing it but not unheard of, I’m currently smack dab in the middle of my whole life. When I look over my shoulder, I see a lot of […]
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