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metamorphosis
Brca 2 Nothing more than a ghost within a ghost* Bloodstained boots carry me through doors into rooms I am afraid to enter. Ancestors follow marked by heredity generation after generation at the mercy of their cells. * Long Day’s … Continue reading
becoming
I have never felt more whole than now, despite coming through a year in which my body has been cut into multiple times and parts have been removed.
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Warrior Woman by Peter Gaumond
No blade can excise your fierce femininity, no illness withstand the cleansing of your tears. Wounds are swallowed in the embrace of your openness. Sing forth my priestess of transformation.
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Post Bilateral Mastectomy Day 13.
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after the rain
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Laughter-from beginning to end.
Laughter is an instant vacation.~Milton Berle This speaks to me. I woke this morning to great laughter from my son Christopher. My only advice: keep on laughing. You will feel better. I guarantee it.
renewal
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call … Continue reading
