fibromyalgia
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Chronic Illness: 2 sides of the coin
For Dig iDare #311. Some assistance/ inspiration from Turning Straw Into Gold. After a hard crash, over a week of no poems, no haiku, no pages, this DigiDare seemed a good place to begin again. [Click the image to see credits & larger sizes at flickr.] Continue reading
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Through Corridors of Light
Today I received an unexpected bit of solstice light in the mail: There are poets in here whom I love and admire: Emily Dickinson, Jane Kenyon, Theodore Roethke, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Bishop – well, the list is long. And then there's me. My poem Fibromyalgia is the fourth in the book: … Continue reading
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Through Corridors of Light
Today I received an unexpected bit of solstice light in the mail: There are poets in here whom I love and admire: Emily Dickinson, Jane Kenyon, Theodore Roethke, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Bishop – well, the list is long. And then there's me. My poem Fibromyalgia is the fourth in the book: … Continue reading
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Art Journaling: It’s My Body
In January, I signed up for One Little Word, and discovered digital scrapbooking. It's snowballed from there, and now I'm doing digital art journaling. For some reason I am finding it easier to "talk" about being ill in images than in words, and several of the pages I've done are about this. So I may… Continue reading
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Getting Dressed
I am blogging in my pajamas. I've been in pajamas since 2:00 this afternoon. What does this have to do with the purported topic of this blog? Well, fifteen years ago, when I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, I made a commitment to myself: get dressed every day. I might not brush… Continue reading
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