Sometimes I feel haunted by my past. I keep replaying the tapes of my struggles, weaknesses, and losses … which, ironically, frequently dooms me to repeat them. For example, after I got remarried again following my first divorce, when something Carla did...
Years ago someone shared with me how she’d been sexually abused in her childhood. In my naivety, I remember being saddened for her, while also thinking as an adult she must have moved on and healed from that “distant” trauma. To make a long story...
Growing up there were times when I HATED my name. Some kids, whose hurts led them down the path of bullying, would ridicule me by making fun of it. They twisted Lang Charters into “Fang Farters”, for instance. As an adult, someone very close to me would...
This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. … Thy infinite gifts come to me only on those very small...
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