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Time after Time
I’ve been thinking about time this week. Physics majors, as I was long ago, are surprised to learn that physical laws do not depend on time going in only one direction. There’s only one law that requires time to move in a single direction, the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy is always increasing. Energy gets more dispersed, not less.
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Take Back the Night—and the Garden
I found myself in therapy in the late 1980s because I didn’t understand how to receive the nurturing I deserved, especially in sexual relationships. My therapist, Fred, had been trained in Primal Therapy. The process of unraveling soul-crushing trauma by following the trail of excess emotion turned out to be a very effective tool for me. In fact, I uncovered so much that one day I actually found myself reliving my birth. It was terrifying, so much so that I vowed I would do what I could to make my children’s births less traumatic.
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Mama Mary: Nature and Nurture
As I mentioned in my post about the Agony in the Garden, I love gardens. Flowers, particularly, mean a lot to me. A beautiful flower can almost always strike a joyful chord in my heart, even if I am in the depths of despair. So when Perdita announced that this would be the “Flower Power” novena, intended to nourish the garden that is the Way of the Rose community, I was all in.
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