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Archive for May 2008

something else i can’t afford to buy

Posted by: Becca on: May 19, 2008

I said before I can’t afford to buy coincidence. I also can not afford to buy fear. The cost is outrageous and there is no easy way to return it.

psalm

Posted by: Becca on: May 13, 2008

Please help me keep perspective.
Be my protector, and my stronghold.
My center, my buoy.
Grant me clarity and wisdom.

Set right my compass.
propel me through the uncharted waters,
through the depths of my uncertainties.
And wrap me in comfort;
may it soak through my pores.
Send peace through my veins, [...]

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taking stock

Posted by: Becca on: May 12, 2008

When I take stock, really take stock of my life, the life I inhabit this very moment, I am flooded with gratefulness and think it would be greedy to seek or want for anything else, as what I have is more than enough, and even the hardships and sacrifices are bearable. But then I think [...]

you’re gonna miss this

Posted by: Becca on: May 12, 2008

May 10, 2008

Mom, Natalie and I walked around downtown Concord today. We parked in the free 3 hour parking deck behind the library and made our way in and out of the little boutiques and antique shops. We stopped in one store and sampled lotions, stopped in another where I took about 15 minutes to [...]

what people are made of

Posted by: Becca on: May 7, 2008

I think we are made of glass and glue and thread…which is why we can break, come undone, come unraveled and be beautifully stained and pieced back together, woven into one another, repaired…

silence…

Posted by: Becca on: May 7, 2008

silence is a medium through which we design our ideas. silence does anything but erase or dissolve the pressing heart. silence offers little peace to the unanswered questions. silence feeds our imaginations.

There’s no fairy dust

Posted by: Becca on: May 3, 2008

Why is it so hard to believe that mental illness is an illness? It has symptoms, it has treatments. You don’t have to see cancer oozing out of someone to believe when someone says they have it. And what is the general consensus when someone is being treated for cancer? Give them [...]