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Pamela

Professional Human Being

I am approximately 35....ok, for sure 35 years old, with two beautiful spawn, ages 3 (drama daughter) and 5 (little tank), and a magnificant husband. I teach high school English, and have supposedly maintained my sanity in the process. I enjoy reading, lots of music, traveling and wine. That sounde...

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Ah...........

all better!

This time was relatively painless. My brain is all pink and sparkly, oozing butterflies and tiny smiley faces again. I don’t know if is due to the 5am gardening with Leo, the return to exercise and food that doesn’t come in a combo, students that show up, do their homework, smile, participate, using words like cyclical, or a medley of all of those, but voila!! I can see through my eyeballs again!

I would like to immediately address my new found feeling of belonging, and the realization that spawned it. Let me start by saying that  I believe that we, especially women (and I might say that simply because I AM a woman) spend WAY too much time doing things, like living, alone. Unless you belong to the “lucky ones” supper club, you just might spend close to half your life trying to prove that you CAN, by God,  do what everyone says you can’t do because you have boobies. So you take that job, you marry that man, raise those kids, join those clubs, that gym, that church, that group, blah blah blah, and so on and so forth. In the midst of that, maybe you, like I, lose yourself. Maybe you make REALLY stupid decisions because you have no idea what your priorities should look like. Maybe it takes a nice swift kick in the Calvins to open to your eyes and “encourage” you to assess, or possibly create, your plan. Perhaps, it takes this AND the encouragement of other human beings, especially those WITH boobies, to show you that you are not alone on this crackety, broken, beautiful trail we climb, all too often with our designer blinders on. I just wanted to say THANK YOU TO MY FRIENDS WITH BOOBIES!. Please breathe today, just for yourselves, so that, in turn, your breathing into those around you is effective and sustaining. You really deserve it.