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The Rescuers
“Do it your bloody self!”That was pretty much the catchphrase from my childhood.Can you tell me how to spell this word?“Look it up in the dictionary.”I don’t think I can fix this.“You haven’t tried hard enough then.” Resilience.That’s what they called it.While I may have grown up ahead of my peers in problem solving, abstract thinking, and a ridiculous amount of independence, I was also way ahead of them in hypervigilance, social anxiety, and a belief that to ask for help was shameful and bound in obligation and ridicule. I didn’t mind other people asking for help, and I gladly help others, but they seemed somehow different from me, and…
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Tide Pools
Tide goes in, tide goes out. But what stays is a whole world unto itself. You’d think being a fisherman’s daughter, I would have understood all his crazy sayings by now. It’s too cold on the shore for anyone else, but fitting for me to be here; leaping from rock to rock across the pools just like I had as a child. I chase my memories among the battering of onshore winds that deafen me to anything but my thoughts. My ballet flats perch atop a thin black rock and my arms reach out in balance against the brooding gray sky. Little droplets of rain sting like barbs when they…
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