I have been thinking a lot lately about how ideas evolve. Not just ideas out in the world, but our own ideas about ourselves. We think we are working on one thing and then, years later, we look back and realize we were building toward something we couldn’t even see yet. When I started thisContinue reading “Moving Through My 60s with Evolution On My Mind…”
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Emotional Laundry: the Truth Beneath the Grime
No one teaches us how to feel. Not the real way. We’re spit out into the world like emotional little androids—screaming, blinking, “Hello, world?”—and expected to function. Expected to swallow grief like vitamins and stack trauma like it’s laundry. And it is always laundry day. Emotions don’t go away. They wait. Like socks in theContinue reading “Emotional Laundry: the Truth Beneath the Grime”
Life's Lessons and Mental Health 