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June 14, 2006
I wonder what I'm choosing I wonder what I'm losing
Lord, but it's been an interesting few months. I mean that in the Chinese-proverb sense, of course, although much of what's been interesting has also been positive.
I've been seeing an acupuncturist for the migraines, to great effect: I'm off Topamax entirely, and I'm down to only taking Imitrex very occasionally. Whenever I walk a lot, I feel my feet wanting to lift off and speed up and go zooooom, which seems like a good sign that I'll be back to running any time now. I've been working for a month putting out a special issue of Cosmo Style & Beauty, and that's been eating up all the lovely daytime hours, but as soon as we're done I'm going to try to get some time in the park.
In other copyediting news, I'm doing the wordsmithing for $pread Magazine, and it's been lots of fun. I'm really proud of the work, and I think it's going to be a great issue. Lots of terrific articles, including an interview with Buck Angel--neat!
A lot of the last three months has been taken up with emotional stuff, though; I'm not really ready to talk about it, since it's still in flux, but it's been a hard road. Here's a poem I found particularly apt that I just read yesterday:
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
--Elizabeth Bishop
Posted by Rose at June 14, 2006 12:31 PM
Comments
It sounds like things are getting better; I hope that's the case.
Just curious--how often do you have to have the acupuncture for it to work?
Posted by: I. at June 16, 2006 11:20 AM