Softer: May Skies

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Hard.

Firm, solid, rigid, stiff, resistant, unbreakable, inflexible, impenetrable, unyielding, solidified, hardened, compact, dense, close-packed, compressed; steely, tough, strong, stony, rocklike, flinty, as hard as stone; frozen.

With my daughter, my husband, my friends, my pets, my clients...

I am soft.

With myself I can be...

if I am not careful...

not so soft.

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When my body chose to become stiff and unyielding, heavy with scars, I chose to be equally as rigid in my thoughts. And it only served to create both mental and physical frustration.

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When I insisted on wearing the same garments I had worn before surgery, conforming to a dictated schedule without flexibility, my skin burned with pain.

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When voicemail sent me an old message asking me to call the office for additional testing, my thoughts stayed frozen in the worst possible place. I wouldn't let myself soften enough to entertain the idea of a technical error.

Softer, softer.

Softer still.

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Empty signposts echo our changing landscape. A small town softening, mom and pop hardware stores and farms giving way to big boxes and housing developments.

This post will be part of Skywatch Friday on May 25. 

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