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02-02-2020 06:39 PM
02-02-2020 06:39 PM
Re: Fragile
Hello @Appleblossom
Not so good about your neck but it is good to hear other things are going well for you.
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03-02-2020 04:12 AM
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03-02-2020 02:33 PM
03-02-2020 02:33 PM
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I know you have read a great deal and I have been re-reading a book called Women who Run with the Wolves and I have been wondering if you have read it
I have obviously read this book a lot in the past - though it has been languishing on my bookshelves for a long time - I have annotated it so much it is really interesting to note what I commented upon so long ago -
Last night I read a great deal about women who thought they had been born into the wrong family - eg - The Ugly Duckling stories - I certainly identify with that one and I am glad I was an Ugly Duckling because I feel free to be who I am now
Just asking actually - I do feel like starting an Ugly Duckling Thread for other Ugly Duckling.
Dec
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04-02-2020 01:41 PM
04-02-2020 01:41 PM
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Thanks for asking.
Yes it is one of the books that probably kept me going through me bad period. I dont buy many books considering my reading but I bought it in 1993. I had been reading many fairy stories to my children and needed the adult interpretation of womanhood and motherhood for the little bit of sanity I still possessed att. Yes I relate to the Ugly Duckling story.
Off top of my head I remember a story about an old lady singing the bones of her dead.
@WandererThank you. I know you understand physical issues.
Had a good meal and chat and tele with my son last night. He showed me the series "Cuckoo" which we can both laugh out loud at.
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04-02-2020 05:35 PM
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04-02-2020 06:10 PM
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05-02-2020 03:33 PM
05-02-2020 03:33 PM
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I bought the book in 1994 and how heavily annotated it is! - I was newly a grandmother then - my annotations have reminders of what I must tell my grand-daughter - whether I have or not I have forgotten but she is an independent woman living interstate now - doing okay I am sure
I had to struggle a lot with motherhood issues - and daughter issues - I am totally sure I am an Ugly Duckling who found herself in a chicken's nest - and alas - my mother was to be the character in a short story I wrote about a stupid chicken who had no idea of what she had in her nest. AI! - what would I do next to embarrass my family - it was enlightening to read that I was vindicating myself gently by surviving - and I have - sure now that I have met my own kind in the world - many people in this forum
I am researching why so many women have such a poor self-image - I need to get my computer updated with the soft-ware to deal with this - reducing my pain medication is making this hard work - I need to get myself up to the Good Guys but it takes all day to get the pain to settle. This is not fun but I have started writing in long-hand - it takes longer - that's all -
What comes through my research strongly is that we are not mad, strange, odd, weird, bad, wrong - etc etc just because the world tells us this is true - we are different - I am different - complicated - getting more like one of my grandmothers though I have already lived longer than her. What a treasure I have found
I want to share it - hence the research and the writing
Thanks Apple - you are an inspiration to me
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06-03-2020 10:29 PM
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06-03-2020 10:36 PM
06-03-2020 10:36 PM
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Hugs Bella
How are you?
I went to IWD First Nation sisters rally this week.
@ethPlaying Archie and Shane H. (got online music and licence)
Thinking of you.
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07-03-2020 10:33 AM
07-03-2020 10:33 AM
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Hi @Appleblossom Hope today's a good one for you. You're usually busy on the weekends I think but if you want to catch up I'm around today.