A Writer’s Haunting

If, like me, you have an assortment of story rattling around in your head, it can be rather haunting until you have the whole of it out, out of your head that is. This particular story has been haunting me for a number of years, and despite the months I have tried to get it all out, there is more that needs to be sorted out. I am obsessed by two characters, who are flawed beyond hope, yet I can’t let them drown in their own misery. I keep rooting for them despite their own self-destructive antics. They are survivors. Jaded and scarred but survivors all the same. Tonight, let me introduce Mrs. Hendricks and Helen.

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Self Care is Survival

No doubt you need it, self care that is. But my first question is: are you even on your own care list? Do you ever take a break just for yourself? Treat yourself to a moment in the tub or ski along a groomed trail? Well, here in Vermont, we are in the midst of the deep winter freeze, an easy time to feel defeated, but I would encourage you to gift yourself one tiny joy at least once a day. Perhaps make time for some morning yoga, or a mid-week lunch date with a friend, or even a self- massage? Don’t have time for yourself you say? Seriously, you must. Or at least I hope to encourage you to get on your own list.

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One Day in the Life

The very best part of winter is the ease with which one can witness a sunrise. Without waking too early one can catch the brilliance of pink shooting across the horizon. I’m a big fan of an easy celebratory vantage, but an explosive dawn right out my east-facing window takes the prize every time. Sure, it’s cold, bone-chillin cold, but that sky is on fire and in that one moment I am fueled to face the day, with all that it might bring.

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