Jackie
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Jackie
To be a sick person is to know that you are always, simply by being alive and being unwell, someone else’s rude awakening.
Sophie Strand • The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human
there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
“everything I touch turns into me"
Devine Lu Linvega
May you learn to use this illness
As a lantern to illuminate
The new qualities that will emerge in you.
As a lantern to illuminate
The new qualities that will emerge in you.
Jenifer Breshears Markley • Poet in Profile: John O’Donohue
in my fatigue and pain I couldn’t find the words to make myself legible to others. (And I still have not found them. This text is full of silences and vagueness and lacunae: when I write “brain fog,” I imagine that your mind slides over the idea, unless you, too, have suffered from it.)
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Choose wisely
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