My Mental Reservation: My Query

I like to keep my goals guaranteed. Process oriented. “Feel good.” For example, I was the bright-eyed and unskilled basketball player who truly prioritized having a good time over making her next shot. In school, my aim was to learn, not to make good grades. This aim-for-the-journey-and-not-the-destination mindset works almost all of the time, but [...]

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A Silence in Words

For two weeks, I have written nothing for My Inconvenient Body, save for a few scratched out sentences and a floating paragraph, now buried inside my journal. I think I needed relief from the first person chatter. After a while, it begins to nauseate me with its self-centered certainty. Yes, words have such stolid limits–they [...]

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