letters to my sister, daughter, mother
Asking for help isn’t giving up, it’s refusing to give up.
The movie Runaway Bride was a revelation to me. Ol girl’s partners all said she liked her eggs the way they liked their eggs because she would always mold herself into who THEY needed her to be instead of being herself. She didn’t KNOW how she liked her own damn eggs.
As the future becomes more tenuous, I want to teach my child to enjoy the planet right now. I want to teach him how to laze in the grass and watch the clouds without any artificially imposed sense of urgency. Many of the ways I have learned to live well in a chronically ill body — by taking the present moment slowly and gently, letting go of lookin
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but when that is no longer the case, acknowledge that. remind yourself that you deserve those great feelings from someone, consistently. not just once or three times. you are no one’s lost lovesick puppy. remember who you are.
“The fruit of you is so obvious. So abundant. Of course you made the surplus into jelly.”
Courtnee Futch from With Love & Butter • “Jam Is Just Fruit That’s Been Remembered… or Forgotten” & Other Musings.
