Somebody Said…

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Take me with you


Pretty All True

Need Something?

Silvered delirium

I have lost my wedding ring.

It’s not really lost.  It’s around here somewhere.

It’s kind of lost.

Sigh.

I should not be trusted with small valuable items.

I have a long history of irresponsibility where my wedding ring is concerned.

Not long after I got married?

I get sick, and I decide to …Silvered delirium

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Expectations exceeded

The other day at Target, the girls and I did their back-to-school shopping.  On the list?  New backpacks for both girls.

Kallan quickly collects all of the smaller items on her list and then announces she would like to buy a ball with her own money.  She runs off to select the perfect bouncy …Expectations exceeded

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Cruel poetry

I was watching Project Runway the other day, in which aspiring clothing designers compete in a reality show competition. Not one of my favorite shows, but I was sitting there all lazy and watching it. And Tim Gunn, whose job it is to make all of the competing designers feel insecure about their work …Cruel poetry

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Lodging a complaint

Dear Power Company,

I am sending you this letter to request immediate corrective action on our household’s power account.

I have never written to you before, even though I have had minor issues in the past with your services.  Despite the fact that some of those issues were alarming at first, our past power …Lodging a complaint

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Triggered

Someone spoke to me of triggers the other day.

They meant memory triggers.

That experience when something in your current life suddenly flashes connectively to some earlier part of your life that you had not been considering at all . . . and now it is all that you can see.  And then that …Triggered

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