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Before Becoming
“I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…
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“The Impossible Dream”
Do you want to know a fun fact? I have aphantasia. Isn’t that a delightful word? What it means is I have no ability to conjure a mental image. If someone says, “Close your eyes and picture an apple.” I’ve got nothing but black screen behind my eyes. When reading, people without aphantasia describe seeing…
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Tripping the Lights… FANTASTIC
My husband and I arrived early to the concert hall and had only settled into our thoughtfully selected barstools for about 15 minutes before her laughter sliced the air with its mocking tone. With a nervous system too highly calibrated for such sounds, I remember my shoulders shooting up and my neck pulling downward as…
