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Fear of the fourth, daily reflection April 9.

I wanted to do the fourth.  I had a hunch – rather, knew as clear as two and two is four – it was my emotional mess that kept me an active alcoholic.  I knew that it was self-hate and deep shame that formed the way I lived;  anything like ‘better’ would have to radically …

April 9, 2012 – 12:15 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

A beautiful evil, August 6

Pandora was gifted, or is the giver of gifts.  Mythology mutates, vases crumble, tercets get lost.  Nuance is final.  Ambiguity is most true.  To say that she was evil doesn’t tell the whole story, nor would saying she was beautiful.  She was made of the earth, and she was given a box. That much sounds …

August 6, 2011 – 10:37 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)