Potato Soup Journal has published my creative nonfiction/memoir/personal essay/lyric essay/observation, "Possessive Pronouns." (Yes, the piece itself is just as sprawly and multifaceted as that, weaving into it such threads as pirates, pearls, and elderly donkeys.) This is a meditative reflection on coming-of-age, growing pains, at a more advanced age than is usually associated with those things. Or, as a kind friend has said about it, "Exquisite writing on themes of ancestry, selfhood and the concerns of the later stages of life."
One of the important conclusions or life lessons I reach as I mull on is that "I think I finally understand that possibility is not the possibility of leaving, not exactly or not necessarily, but the possibility of keeping—keeping one's self intact, unconquered by the musts and shalls and shan'ts, wings uplifted, stunningly agile while as fragile as spun glass."
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