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Tag Archives: bodies
a tug on the leash – July 29
7.29.2014 the dog stops more often on our walks now to sniff, to lift a leg, to squat or perhaps to fake one of these so that he can take a breath as he ages. I tug at … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, aging, bodies, body awareness, compassion, dog, grace, mortality, nature, walks
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wear and tear – June 1
6.1.2014 forty years ago on a rain slicked night a car in front turned sideways at fifty miles per hour and five years later the back gave out, like the twisted metal of the driver’s seat, on a drive … Continue reading
Lent Prayer 38 -April 11
Lent Prayer 38 in the last days we seem to cry about things that have not gone well in our lives as if we were supposed to be immune from the gifts you gave us of mortality and limits … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, body awareness, Christianity, Gift, joy, Lent, limits, mortality, Prayer, soul
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two hundred thou – September 15
9.15 we do maintenance on the old car, bicycle, body. At two hundred thou everything needs a checkover and every system shows its age. lube those parts that didn’t used to crink. they do now and so … Continue reading
maintenance – August 31
8.31 drops in eyes, pills in places, lay down and stretch that back, oil those hinges, check the lint trap, screen that face and fast. slide the dipstick, test those tires, air pressure’s good or not grease … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, bodies, changes, groups, maintenance, nations, society
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state fair – August 30
8.30 wide wide bottoms in blue jeans corn fed mamas off to the fair sad happy faces with corndogs Minnesota mining for fair. ———————
long time coming – June 27
6.27 left sciatic nerve kicking in, long time coming, years in the making like a Hollywood epic that traces itself to the thirties bodies work themselves out of lifetime’s clicks clacks and cracks wounds and nippings here … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, appreciation, Back Pain, bodies, honor, life, pain, Sciatica, Spinal disc herniation, victories, wounds
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why does God let people die in bathrooms – June 26
6.26 why does God let people die in bathrooms, his son asked. we have to be somewhere, is all I could think to reply. Our bodies know their limits and their bounds. I awoke today feeling the limits of … Continue reading
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