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FALL | Patricia J Grace
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Author of SHATTERED, a memoir of childhood sexual abuse. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. And the frozen snap of trees in sub-zero temps, feeling alone but not lonely by the solid creek, as if I were an Eskimo out trapping. If I dealt with my usual winter depression, it didn’t feel as if so. But I also worked hard to maintain that OK-ness, every day, sometimes every moment. And another, my friend Sue, who died a few years ago of cancer, with never a complaint and only a smile. I fail, and fail miser...
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BALANCE | Patricia J Grace
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Author of SHATTERED, a memoir of childhood sexual abuse. August 13, 2015. August 20, 2015. What if I wasn’t such a schizo-nutball? Medical people upset me. I’m scared and don’t see them enough to feel comfortable. When I do meet a Doc that I like the office sucks, and more pointedly, makes errors that threaten lives. Or I like an office’s capability but the Doc needs to seek out a career in research, not any place where people are involved. Why can’t I be calm like Samuel? Why do I fall off the deep end?
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CHILDHOOD LOSSES DUE TO ABUSE | Patricia J Grace
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Author of SHATTERED, a memoir of childhood sexual abuse. CHILDHOOD LOSSES DUE TO ABUSE. August 6, 2015. August 6, 2015. There are too many to name, none easy to talk about or put into words, the ramifications so great. But one that has come up in a few blogs lately seems the very hardest to talk about, sexual intimacy in a loving relationship. That was stolen from me. And I don’t mourn what I never had. But I know it’s a great loss. On to later years, women respond and feel their sensuality, and are able...
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The Post That I Have No Clue What To Call- Part 2 – Vocal Pendulum
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Just loud thoughts on the many things I think about. The Pendulum that talks while it swings! About, well me! Talk to the Pendulum? The Post That I Have No Clue What To Call- Part 2. September 17, 2016. September 30, 2016. I have known too many people who have battled cancer. But I have never heard someone speaking of how the disease affected their lives. Sure, we all know that it hurts and that it is a dreadful thing to happen. But the emotional trauma? The scars left to heal themselves? Good young peop...
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8 Times When Ignorance Was Blissful – Vocal Pendulum
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Just loud thoughts on the many things I think about. The Pendulum that talks while it swings! About, well me! Talk to the Pendulum? 8 Times When Ignorance Was Blissful. August 26, 2016. September 21, 2016. There are times when I mess up things. Okay, I mess things up all the time. But there are certain times when I blame it all on realizations and convince myself this: had I not known thaat, the world would have been a much better place. 8 things that always make my list:. I easily panic thinking that I ...
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The Mother Ship Inventory – UnSimply She
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The survival of an ordinary, fabulously, complicated woman. A to Z Challenge 2016. Middot; UnSimply She. The Mother Ship Inventory. December 13, 2016. December 13, 2016. I started the holiday season feeling such gratitude and joy. I knew my joy and gratitude would soon be tested because life is a series of moments of serene joy and gratitude, not a constant plane of happy. Get real. For constant happy I would need a cocktail of something…. Perhaps a mix of denial and delirium? I’m allergic to negativity.
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February | 2015 | Patricia J Grace
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Author of SHATTERED, a memoir of childhood sexual abuse. CHAPTER 16: THE TIN MAN. February 28, 2015. February 28, 2015. The warning had come several weeks beforehand; he wouldn’t leave without doing it properly. Raymond explained, We will be moving soon, to Louisiana. Somewhere in the blur that followed, I also heard him say, Some folks have been coming for as long as I’ve practiced. Imagine how hard it will be on them. To him, to abusive brothers, to the universe. Which one would you suggest? Reminders ...
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July | 2015 | Patricia J Grace
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Author of SHATTERED, a memoir of childhood sexual abuse. July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. So what’s on tonight? Put me with that pompous ass, Harry, Carol’s husband, who has bigger and better of everything, and I have to use sleep aids, and did both nights while camping at Fillmore Glen. I hate that and use them sparingly because they make me groggy all the next day. He had the ‘. Bigger camper, the bigger veranda on the camper, more wood and a bigger truck, so we should spend our time over at their site.