rest

One day I will still have this itch and a migraine and trouble sleeping and I will die. It will be another day. 

k

Grimes was exercising poetic license when she said that she was so heavy she fell through the earth. 

curricula

Teaching maths is very different from teaching history. With maths the teacher can know everything, or everything that the student needs to learn, but with history that isn't the case. 

vocab

Who would have imagined that the first time I would hear someone use the word 'fecund' in real life would be in a show about female wrestlers. 

winds of change

Depression reverses your perceptions. You take refuge in pain and the movement towards good health is deeply unsettling. 

It's very reassuring to make that realization - that the stress, turmoil and mental pain that you are experiencing is not breaking you down, it's the beginning of something good, even though it doesn't feel like it. 

real lies

I can never change without trauma. It's so uncomfortable. Pushed out from the warm, hospitable haven of the house that my fear has built, into the storm outside, only to realize, fleetingly at first, but with growing certainty, that this is life and it's good. It's not the end....well, it's the end of the old me who doesn't know any better. 

synesthesia

It's a sign of healing when I can, at least for moments at a time, just let go of my inner drama that is so oppressive and absorbs all my attention at the expense of anything else - anything positive and worthwhile.