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O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Happy shall they be who pay you back What you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones And dash them against the rock! -Psalm 137: 8-9 Backwards.
Rearwards. Back to front. In reverse. Toward the rear. Inverted. Guys. Life has never been stranger. How many times?, I wonder.
How many times?, or, When will I ever be healthy enough to handle this? Because, guys, I don’t do social media well. I just don’t. Three years ago, if you would have told me my son would soon be diagnosed with a dangerous form of cancer, I would have…
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.” (Mark Manson)
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