Tag: vocabulary

• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  There was a time when I thought that feeling pity for someone was a virtue; it meant feeling discomfort at their situation, I suppose, but perhaps it was also tinged with relief that their situation had not happened to me. And yet was that all I felt? Surely there was some concern and a wish…

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  October 5, 2022

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  compassion, Gordon Marino, Invictus, Native Son, Nietzsche, Pity, Richard Wright, St. Olaf College, sympathy, The Antichrist, vocabulary, William Ernest Henley, words

• The Temple of Clothes

  I caught someone inspecting me the other day. Okay, it wasn’t an inspect exactly –it was more of a look… Well, maybe a glance, but it bothered me all the same. I could feel her eyes doing a quick little dance on me. They started on my mud-caked running shoes, before appraising the hem of…

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  September 6, 2017

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  Afghanistan, anticipatory dresser, chador, clothes, eyes, forest, inspection, names, Pashto, trail, translator, vocabulary, woods

• The Crown Jewel

    Ahh, those were the days! The days when naivete reigned. The once-upon-a-times when my practice was young and everyone around me seemed old. They spoke a language I had not anticipated in my training; they seem to have subscribed to different dictionaries, or the words were smudged so they did their best with what…

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  October 8, 2014

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  belly button, belly dance, crown jewels, danse du ventre, endometriosis, incision, language, laparoscopy, lower quadrant pain, medical practice, monthlies, navel, Pain, parts, pelvic pain, vocabulary