by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been working on a puzzle recently. It’s what I do when life feels out of control. I can work at a puzzle. There are only so many pieces. I have the picture for directions. And when I get tired of it, I can put it away and work at it again tomorrow. No...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 22, 2012 | Wordlessly Wednesday
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by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 21, 2012 | Beautiful Things, Broken Pieces, When Life Hurts
During a group therapy session for people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I was asked to respond to the following poem: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Dear Friday, I’ve missed you! It’s been awhile, huh? So this week (read: month) has been… hard. I continue to struggle with balance and hope… or is it confidence? Balance The first, balance, is easy to describe. I feel like a tightrope walker on the high wire of...
by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I went for a 30 minute walk that only lasted 5 minutes because it was so freakin’ cold outside that I had to turn back home. We’re talking chilled-to-the-bone-I might-as-well-have-been-hiking-the-polar-ice-caps cold. So what does one do to warm back up? Take...
