Day: May 6, 2010
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Symbols and Dirty Little Secrets
Some things change. Some stay the same. I get a blast from the past while sitting on an inter- view panel. While waiting for our interviewee to show up, one of our other panelists—whom I don’t know very well—tells me that I’ve helped her in untold ways in her new job. Apparently, she has some …
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Faith in the Future You Cannot See
While in Daytona, I meet up with a High Priestess friend I haven’t seen in ages. We have a long-standing tradition of reading cards for each other whenever we do get together in the physical realm, even though I’ve never considered myself any good at it and she’s quite the ex- pert, especially with Kabbalah-based …
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Oppression
The last time I felt this particular sense of oppression, I was in my early 20’s. I had forgotten this feeling, or why, but now it comes back with the strength of anything powerful that’s been buried for an entire adult lifetime. I’m suddenly 21 again, and in love with a boy who lives in…
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Of a Size
The third epiphany from my trip to Daytona has to do with body image. Shannon had tried to get me to buy a new swimsuit before we left home and I’d given her a maybe at best. I like swimsuits, just not so crazy about me in swimsuits. Even when I was a size 5,…
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Impoverished Thinking
Maybe I’m just going to have to remember to look outside my immediate environment and check myself as far as the reality that I’ve either created or has been created for me. In regard to my career and my creative projects, I came to realize in Daytona that I’ve been basing much of my future…
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Despite Economic Hard Times, Pagans Dig Deep to Help
For a woman called “Trauma,” the acquisition of an Automated External Defibrillator has been an elusive dream. But now, despite a hard-hitting economy, it’s a dream come true because a small group of pagans came together for a good cause. “I’ve been wanting an AED for five years,” Trauma says, cooling off in air-conditioned Cabin…
