Legitimacy

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.” – Jung The coming of cold weather, my birthday: both can render me barely eligible to participate in society. “My neurosis levels are high,” I warned my friend. Dying plants! Cold feet! Darkness! At my writing retreat last weekend, I spent a good part of the time […]

Natural

It’s quite the counterpoint to yoga, at least my kind of yoga. In yoga, they say, listen to your body. Relax! We have faith that consistent practice will take us further than forcing. Ballet doesn’t care if you feel good. Ballet forces itself upon you. If someone in my ballet class does not watch my […]

Passive/Aggressive

Coincidentally, after I wrote about bullying, I was bullied something fierce. Which I did not enjoy. It was annoyingly adorable and cruel of fate. My response to being bullied, in the moment, is just it was when I was ten. I turn into a statue like Mario does in Mario 3, and wait for the […]

Bullies

I don’t know many people who have the balls to stand up in front of a group and lead them somewhere. Leadership is always hard to find, let alone leadership of kids who don’t want to go anyplace, and will be uncomfortable for significant parts of the journey. When people who do have the cajones […]