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“I meant I was ready to shore up what little purity I had left, ready to not have sex again until I was married. That I would save what I could. My two pennies. What little I could yet claim as my own. I was happy, beginning again. I felt self-possessed and determined and maybe maybe maybe okay. Possibly good enough, once again.” ~ Susan Woodring
“I too believe in the power of self-improvement plans because, despite my cynical-seeming and gruff manner, I am fundamentally an optimist. I believe people can change for the better, but I also believe that, although we can help one another, the impetus has to come from the individual. (As tempted as I am to come up with New Year’s resolutions for family members, colleagues, neighbors, and, well, almost everyone I know, I’m smart enough to resist. Usually.)” ~ Joe Mills
What is this Kool-Aid people are bringing into the gym with them these days? Huge jugs of the stuff. It’s not pre-workout boosters because that
“And so it was in that place that I found my will, my first sense of self, and it was also where I saw once, my father in frustration pick up my mother and move her bodily to the other side of the room, only once, but such that I knew then that no matter what I wanted, that someone stronger could always make me do otherwise. A body lesson I would hate even until now. I still want to make it otherwise. I value my strength, as though my ability to carry heavy boxes and move furniture could protect me from the real threat of not getting my way. Of being picked up and moved. Of being overpowered. Of being raped. Again.” ~ Laura Jean Moore
I’m pretty good at falling. Over the past few years of living with a progressive neuromuscular disease, I’ve learned how to come down on the
“Homes aren’t always about origins, so much as they are about the place you return to know yourself. ” ~ Laura Jean Moore
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