Aprovechar

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Do you ever have moments when your brain is so mashed full of thoughts, ideas, and feelings that when you open your mouth to speak or pose your hands to type, you pause to collect your thoughts, and then can get little of use to come out? That’s me today.  I’m sitting in a chair […]

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Wishing has power–not necessarily in a magical or religious sense (though maybe?), but because when you formulate a solid wish for your life, you set yourself up to put the wheels of your life in motion, allowing you to move toward your desire.  Or at least, you can use the wish as the catalyst for […]

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I was just scratching my collarbone, and I’m still amazed that my collarbones have emerged from my body in the last 15 or so pounds of weight loss. When I’ve had abdominal surgery before, it’s always been followed by a natural period of swelling and then an unnatural period of extreme weight gain as I […]

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I’ll get to my meal plan, but much of eating, for me, is tied up with other health and emotional issues, so before my plan: I’m trying to heed much of what my Chinese med practitioner and I have discussed.  One of the elements that has been key to me lately is trying to focus […]

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My best friend is going for a job interview in California, where I fully expect they’ll offer her the job (and that’s not just me being supportive–she’s just pretty much got it in the bag); she leaves on Wednesday. (I’m not sniffling only because I’m not really *thinking* about it yet.)  She’ll be staying in […]

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The foreshortening of the days becomes apparent.  The quality of the afternoon light changes, somehow, a subtle shift toward golden as our half of the planet gradually shifts away from the sun.  Fall is coming.  It’s still hot as Hades most days and some nights, and it will be for some time.  But tonight, our […]

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I went out tonight for dinner with an ex-boyfriend.  He was my first love, actually; we dated from age 17 to 20.  We’ve become pretty close friends again in the last few months, and we go out for a meal together every few weeks.  Tonight we were belatedly celebrating our birthdays, which are close together.  […]

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There’s been a crescendo of questions lately coming at me by email and blog comment about how I came to learn that I have food allergies and gluten intolerance/atypical celiac disease. Also, people keep commenting in person to me and my best friend—she was diagnosed with food allergies after me—that it ‘must be something in […]

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