Runs With Scissors

"You know, that simple, brief jaunt to Montreal kicked up some dust, producing the kind of internal unrest that gets me withdrawing a bit -- doing what absolutely needs to be done (errands, gym, lawnmowing/gardening, making meals) and backing off from just about everything else. Staying offline. Retreating to the sofa with a book or with the tube cranked. Staring out the window at beautiful Vermont countryside, thinking (or not).

We all have ways of coping. Better two or three days of retreat than some of the ways I dealt with internal unrest in earlier years -- coping mechanisms cobbled together with little or no sane, positive guidance, producing many colorful stories along with deep, subtle bruising.

In many ways, my life is good. I am well cared for by this universe. But big changes are needed."

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Runs With Scissors