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Your Aching Back
You feel it on the drive home. You feel it the next afternoon when you bend down for the laundry and something in your hip says no. You feel it in the morning when the first ten steps to the bathroom are the steps of a woman forty years older than you are. You tell yourself it is just the job. It is the job. But the job being hard on your body is not the same as you having to hand the body over without a fight.
Jun 25


The Hustle of Holding it Together
Real strength has a heartbeat. Real strength gets tired. Real strength sleeps. Real strength sits on the bathroom floor sometimes and stares at the tile and doesn’t get up for a minute, and that minute does not disqualify you from anything.
May 19

