Good Morning, Sunshine!
Every morning, without fail, she put her depression and the misery of her marriage in the dryer that stood in the kitchen good only for countertop space and storing the 20 lb bag of potatoes we [...]
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01, 2015
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03, 2014
Last Night, While I Was Sleeping
Last night, while I was sleeping far from you, my heart was growing bigger. I woke up this morning to find that my chest could barely contain its volume. It is growing still. I can [...]
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02, 2014
Sometimes I Can’t Shake This Sadness
Sometimes I can’t shake this sadness in spite of all my training. I can’t seem to wish myself into happiness, Whitewash it with a positive affirmation or two or twenty. I cannot kill the thoughts that [...]
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02, 2014
The Bruised Darkness Still Erupts
For Kathy Lee Kappmeir Just as the doctors predicted upon her diagnosis, she held out for two years in spite of her conviction that holistic treatments and prayers to Hindu gods and goddesses would heal [...]
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02, 2014
Real Love Requires UnPrincessing
We have been trained in the way of princess and savior. Cinderella stories of powerless victimization rescued by some prince with a little magical help from above. It is not our strength, our fortitude or our [...]
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11, 2013
Three Simple Steps to Make Your Life Holy
Everybody needs a God. Now, if you’re an atheist and that puts you on edge, read on, ‘cause there’s a place for you in here as well. The first thing we need to do in order [...]
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11, 2013
Getting in Touch: The Power of Physical Contact
Touch is the first sense to develop in utero and often the last sense to leave before death. Of the five major senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste), touch is the only one that we cannot [...]
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10, 2013
Your Problems Don’t Belong To You – They Are Ours
I often say that it is not our issues that are really our biggest difficulty; our biggest difficulty is the issues we have with our issues. We often cannot even get to addressing the issue at [...]
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10, 2013
Ten Reasons Why You’d Love To Be More Humble
I’ve been on the planet for a good amount of time now, and have learned quite a bit along the way. And while there is a beauty in accumulating a wad of skills and wisdom, there [...]
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10, 2013
Love Will Not Do Your Bidding
Love, when it comes to you, will not do your bidding. It will not land on the convenient person because you will it to be so. Love will not hand to you on a platter the [...]
