November 2010
“I wanted to send a message that it’s OK to be a woman and be fragile, but it’s also OK to have a layer of armor because you need it.”
—Irina Shabayeva
“Sine Timore”
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“Sometimes I think people are irrevocably put into our lives. Even if you tend to keep to yourself, these external characters will still be there. For the most part, I find them to be there as a way to observe. Especially, in terms of, the ones you want to be nothing like, the ones who confound you and then, if you’re lucky enough to find them, the ones who mirror you in small ways. You might learn the most from those.”
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I just wanna say...
I can’t believe I baked a pie early this morning. It was so long ago that it feels like that was days ago.
“The greatest evil is physical pain.”
—Saint Augustine
Oh and by the way
It’s raining, again.
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain”
—William Faulkner
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
—Emily Dickinson
Song of the Day
Five years time - Jonah & the Whale
Curled up in pain
All day long was gogogo. When it was finally done, my body was basically twisted and curled into a tense, angry helix. So glad this ‘day off’ is over. Fibromyalgia really, really sucks.
