Friday, December 18, 2009

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat…..

As I am trotting down the road that is the path of the most difficult time of the year for me (and, the best! It is, after all, Christmas….), I have clung to the song "Smallest Wingless" by Craig Cardiff.

This road is a path that is narrow, and dark, and leads to a culmination that renders nothing….the culmination is daunting. This culmination is nothing that escapes me throughout the rest of the year, but this Christmas road narrows, and crystallizes my searing pain.

Yesterday, I had played the song several times at work. And, when I say "several," I mean it was a broken record.

In many ways this is nothing but a microcosm of who I am, and who I have become. It seems as though my life has been put on hold, and I am set to repeat over and over and over and over….nothing has tripped the repeat just yet.

Will it ever?

Year 1.

Year 2.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Mutually Exclusive/Inclusive

"The dreams that you dream of…."

Dreams that come true…..what dreams? Dreams….nightmares…..yes, they are so mutually exclusive, but so undeniably connected. That is the feelings that I, as a parent feel.

How is one to bifurcate those feelings? All that is good, is all that is pain.