For the record, I know I haven't been doing much actual writing lately... it's been a lot of quotes and whatnot. Rest assured that my brain hasn't shut off - I've still got lots and lots of ideas swimming around in my head (especially right now, fresh from an almost-3-mile run) that I'd like to talk about, I'm just having trouble capturing and tacking them down on paper when I actually have the time to do so.
I will stop a moment and say this (but bear with me, because I don't know if I'll articulate it in a way that makes much sense): Lately I've been feeling... alive again. In the last few months, the parts of me that felt alternately crushed, sad, dead, and numb seem to have come back with that feeling of pins and needles, like when your foot falls asleep and then wakes back up. I feel like this huge weight that I've been lugging around that I didn't know how to get rid of seems to have evaporated, and I'm feeling much lighter. The only phrase that comes to mind when I try to describe what I've been experiencing is the name of a book by Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
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