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[Wanderer]

Hello @Appleblossom 

Not so good about your neck but it is good to hear other things are going well for you.

[Maggie]

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[Owlunar]

Hi @Appleblossom 

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

[Appleblossom]

@Owlunar 

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.

 @Maggie 

@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.

[Maggie]

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[outlander]

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[Owlunar]

Hi @Appleblossom 

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

Dec

[outlander]

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[Appleblossom]

Hugs Bella

@outlander 

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.

[eth]

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.