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Category: The Body Electric

December 31, 2015February 13, 2016A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty-Nine

We run in the dark: Just me and T, our feet slapping the wet pavement. We run through quiet streets still aglow with holiday lights.  Bright orbs as big as pumpkins bob from the trees — a neighborhood tradition — and as they sway gently in the six-o’clock dark, their reflections shimmer in the puddles. And […]

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December 30, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty-Eight

  You might have noticed something important missing from this post. Go ahead:  look again…   Not a single photograph in sight. And there’s a reason for that, because yesterday, I switched off my eyes for a little while, and I just listened. I curled up in a chair in my living room, and I watched as […]

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December 29, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty-Seven

Tonight: I’m home — safe and warm, after all my travels.  Rain patters softly on the roof. I think back to the time I spent with family over the past few days, and to the way I gave my body permission to enjoy this holiday fully and completely: I stood over a wide Wolf range, stirring […]

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December 23, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty-Two {A Christmas Eclipse}

Confession? When I first began my little thirty-day series, my hope was to post every day for 30 days about the joy of living fully in the body. Turns out, though, that I’ll be spending the next four or five days celebrating in T’s family home on Potomac Creek, where the internet connection is spotty […]

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December 23, 2015December 23, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty-One

Can I say something honest to you? I grew up in a world that talked a lot about God — a lot — and I’m not always comfortable with the things that world taught me about him. Tonight, though, as I walk the streets on this darkest night of the year, I stop in front of a […]

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December 22, 2015December 22, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Twenty

Tonight, at the exact moment of the Winter Solstice, I am standing out in my front yard, head craned back, staring at the sky… I’m looking for magic. The thing about the solstice is that it comes at the exact same moment for all of us — the instant when the sun crests over Stonehenge and begins the […]

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December 21, 2015December 21, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Nineteen

Maybe it’s just me, but lately I’ve been feeling like December is just … hard. I don’t have any real emotional reason to feel that way:  no family drama.  No old holiday loss.  If any thing, I’m happy… But I’m also exhausted.  And I’m not just talking about my usual bouts with insomnia.  I’m talking […]

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December 20, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Eighteen

Tonight I chooseto rest– the spent neuronscracklinginto quiet hiss. No words but this: just rest. ❤    

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December 19, 2015December 19, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Seventeen

Tonight, I realize that something has changed between me and the guy I love. I’m at a holiday party when I notice it:  in a crowded room full of chatter and hum.  I’m making my rounds — a slow circuit from one little knot of friends to the next — when I look up just […]

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December 18, 2015December 18, 2015A // W // F

The Body Electric: Day Sixteen

This evening, I asked T if he would take a few simple, spontaneous photographs with me … Not all of us, of course.  Just our hands: And at first, I think he felt like the whole thing was a little strange…  But then this happened: Sometimes, the photos say it all. ❤

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