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4/30
Childbirth has been at the top of my worst fears since I knew where babies came from. The stories of the tearing, Serious Complications, the squeezing-a-watermelon-through-a-rubber-band or whatever – I can feel my vagina actually recoil. It seems reasonable to believe the act of creating a human will destroy me. Maybe this semi-irrational fear is…
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3/30
Dear J, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I visited my grandma in the New Jersey facility, and her eyes were big with a fear I’d never seen on her. She told me she was going to die, and that she didn’t want to; it was so unfair. I drew her to…
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1/30
“Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.” – Rumi On days when I wake up angry at you, I try to be fair. I remind myself how I envy cats, their ability to curl themselves into any shape, surrounded snugly with a body. I remember, I fell asleep last night with my knees…
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Breathe With You – Anna Spackman – YouTube
Breathe With You – Anna Spackman – YouTube
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Trust This
When I was seventeen, I was on a cross country team for the first (and only, so far) time in my life. I am generally ambivalent about running when I am not being chased, but ended up finding my center in running the course that snaked through the Pennsylvania woods of my high school campus.…