Musing
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It was a weekend filled with a lot of emotions. We learned a well known member of the VA community has died. We watched fires continue to burn threatening indigenous communities. We watched people being kidnapped by masked enforcement officers. We watched a nation protest a president who fashions himself a dictator. We learned of…
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I should be writing something else right now, but my phone has prompted me to clean out my photos – noting that the number of screenshots is in the thousands – so I started to delete some things. Doing so was like opening a time capsule of the last few years of my life. I…
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She sits down with her coffee in the morning and makes a list. Weed garden, do dishes, get groceries, get your shit together, the list says. The list represents all of the things she will do when she is fully recovered. When she tells you it has been a hard couple of years, she is…
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It’s a major tenet of Buddhism, as I understand it, that suffering is caused by resistance. Accept what is happening to and around you, and move in strength from there. So often your brain tells you “No, it can’t be true that X is happening,” when in fact, X is very much happening. X is…
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I am a good girl. That got your attention, didn’t it? What I mean is that I always did what I was told – until I didn’t – and I tried my best to do whatever I was doing really, really well. A friend recently pointed out that my perfectionism is very evident (and here…
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I was approached by a podcaster after he learned about me from a mutual friend. He and I do not know each other – it’s one of those 6 degrees of separation things. Bob’s podcast is cool. He talks to people who do things he’s never heard of and tries to step outside of his…
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Recently I read a powerful piece of writing, and even though I didn’t know what the writer was referring to specifically, I felt it immediately. I felt the fear and frustration and shame and relief. I found myself wishing I could command a metaphor in the same way. Over the years, I’ve lost my sense…
Pretty Lynne Writes 