Advice For A Persistent Plight

“Most of all I want you to know that there is nothing to fear.  Fear is the only thing standing in your way.”

Struck by this deeply, sorely, achingly felt inscription on the back of an amazing holographic postcard from my especially sage sister —codename “Jem (The Outrageous)”— encountered last evening in an album from holidaze 2011. It resonates especially now, as I find myself lingering in moments of reflection and no small amount of shame / regret / defeatism / self-loathing for being my own worst enemy over a span of three (!) decades now, having erected —and fortified many, many times over— nearly all of my life’s most consequential, long-lasting roadblocks.

 

L.S.

 *Note that the subject (the lady, not me or the ermine) has chosen a black onyx string of beads much like one of my favorite, and few, necklaces,, found and purchased at a vintage store with my dearly departed grandmother Mims.

 

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