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5/30
Compost It took me almost three weeks of shredding stalks of okra and ginger into the compost to really understand what lay before me, pulsing damp warmth onto the skin of my arms, To look into the slowly-warping scraps of vegetables, the crumbling eggshells, the thin white spinnings of mycelium, the dark, hidden mysteries of
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4/30
Childbirth has been at the top of my worst fears since I knew where babies came from. The stories of the tearing, Serious Complications, the squeezing-a-watermelon-through-a-rubber-band or whatever – I can feel my vagina actually recoil. It seems reasonable to believe the act of creating a human will destroy me. Maybe this semi-irrational fear is
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3/30
Dear J, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I visited my grandma in the New Jersey facility, and her eyes were big with a fear I’d never seen on her. She told me she was going to die, and that she didn’t want to; it was so unfair. I drew her to
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1/30
“Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.” – Rumi On days when I wake up angry at you, I try to be fair. I remind myself how I envy cats, their ability to curl themselves into any shape, surrounded snugly with a body. I remember, I fell asleep last night with my knees
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Breathe With You – Anna Spackman – YouTube
Breathe With You – Anna Spackman – YouTube