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[mydadisdracula]

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[scrumptiousalpacadeer]

Prologue to Removing The Mask

Life’s funny. I used to think I wanted a villa in San Tropez; a cottage in Notting Hill, a massive thatched cottage with outbuildings in Wiltshire for my sprawling social network; my own live in PA, my own live in cook, my own live in nanny; a funky brick work apartment in Manhattan, cocktail parties every night, a walk in wardrobe, an established career, unprecedented fame and adoration, unlimited respect from all my peers, a fleet of Dalmatians, a designer handbag for every day of the week....etc etc. And sometimes I think it would be rather pleasant to have those things...but somehow it’s finally hit home that without a pure and glad heart, all of that would be wholly pointless. It’s a pretty scary thought. 

I’m reminded of that bit in Rocketman, the fabulous Elton John bio-pic, when - in the middle of the archetypal glamorous party at his LA mansion, he sits alone and despairing in his bedroom before taking a near fatal over-dose and diving into his swimming pool, announcing to the hundreds of party goers - ‘and now for my next trick!’. Elton goes on to die and resurrect many times over until, finally, in re-hab he must confront the little boy inside himself that he’s neglected so long, a shy sweet boy who was ferociously unloved by his parents, and learn to love him.. Its time for a change: ‘I’ve been a cunt since 1975′ he confesses in a group session. 

 ‘Upon re-entering the world he ditches his extremely nasty boyfriend, releases ‘I’m Still Standing’ and his new life begins. (dear reader, forgive; I tend to wax on about films...but it’s a great story)  

If someone had told me three years ago that in May 2020 the world would come to a stop and that during this global pause, a priest would commission me to write a piece about ‘what Easter meant to me’, I would have laughed this someone fully out of town, or done what I did a lot of back then, cover my surprise with a subtle put-down or some clever cynical remark. Anything to control the very notion that things would ever get so out of hand.. 

But life is a thing of great magic and impossibly mystery - I guess I always knew that somewhere, and certainly where I came from I should have learned that anything can happen at any time; be ready; always be ready.. Because that is exactly what happened. Because in the heart of Lockdown, at Easter, here in my mid-terrace cottage in rural Sussex, I set about setting myself free - and ‘My Easter - Removing The Mask’  is an account of my journey inwards. 

I must confess that this pandemic has been a blessing for me; I couldn’t bare to return to the world as it was - I mean, so much of it wasn’t working; we’ve got a chance to start something new now. Removing The Mask is about how, in order to begin a new life, we have to let go of the dead. We have to somehow make space inside ourselves - there is so much grief involved, so much humbling; so much acknowledgement of our own powerlessness. I knew I couldn’t do it alone - so I reached out to a man who, if eye-witness accounts are to be believed, knew something of humiliation, persistent cruelty, loneliness - but who came out the other side. And so this Easter, with two cats for company, with a make-shift shrine and mostly in pyjamas, I reached out to the infinite mystery - to let me let go of a girl I loved with all my heart, and lost,  a long long time ago; my blood-sister Sally Ann Wood, who committed suicide when I was sweet sixteen, an A grade student and faithful smoker of Marlboro Reds, obsessed with my ear-pierced Art teacher and high on the endless possibilities of life. 

Removing The Mask is about recalling and remembering love; about re-living the beauty of innocence and the boundless affection of a child; about re-claiming the right to grieve, and how tumbling in love and grief - an experience Western culture is so ill equipped for, with its neurotic allegiance to logic, quantification and intellectual mastery - can serve as a portal to something utterly astonishing. Its about an attempt to return to a ‘feeling life’ and what a treacherous path this seems to be - with all the pain that accompanies such a returning. Its about, perhaps, a decision to live life, here on earth (and we must all decide how we will live now) as a real person - as much as I can. As a woman with wounds; scars; experiences that perhaps mark me out, but perhaps, in the telling, connect me evermore to other women, other humans, people I used to dismiss, trees, animals, the ground I walk on...

The irony isn’t lost that I publish this just as we as a culture are being asked to wear our masks again. Just this morning I’m having acupuncture treatment courtesy of my friend and we’re both there chatting with a make-shift paper muzzle on so she doesn’t get sued for malpractice. But then, after a few minutes, I didn’t really notice she was wearing a mask. I just heard her gorgeous voice, spontaneous laughter, noticed the expression in her brown eyes - because of course its the invisible world - the meaning behind everything - that we need to start connecting with. It’s the masks and walls inside us that are the hardest to pull down; that can reveal endless blue skies and birth new stars. 

Happy Saturday reader

Love Christine x 

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[thefallenshelf]

I felt so blessed earlier today to meet so many people who genuinely wanted to help me in a time of need, while facing adversity from the one person I knew could help me.

My back injury got worse last night. I'd taken my prescribed muscle relaxant, and I was texting my boyfriend over the edge of the bed with a pillow under my belly when I had to sneeze. It felt TERRIBLE for a couple minutes, but with a small adjustment of the heating pad, I felt better than I've felt in a month! I thought I was on my way to recovery.

Then the muscle relaxant wore off after half an hour of being at work. I had felt so good that I forgot to take my daytime Naproxine prescription or turn the heating pad on. It was crippling o.o I stuck it out for a couple more hours before I called my doctor begging to switch my prescription to something more heavy duty than Naproxine, that could be taken during the daytime.

I was bawling my eyes out, wincing at the pain that the huffs I made caused, when one of my coworkers noticed me and grabbed my mom. After a few minutes of very long, hard hugging to release the serotonin in my system and stop the crying, my mom helped me back inside.

Upon arrival to my desk, my boss informed me that it was time to go home. I was no longer welcome to work until I was properly healed. In came my coworker who swooped in for a second time to save me, “Do you need a referral for an acupuncturist or chiropractor?” Honestly, I'd been in so much pain, I couldn't even think of helpful alternative words like, “acupuncture,” and I was in so much pain, I would try just about anything reasonable to make it to away. I wasn't convinced yet, but she offered the name and phone number and sent me on my way.

To get home, I called a Lyft, and my driver immediately asked me what was wrong. As it turns out, he has personal experience with the slow leveled step into a car that is a trademark of lower back pain. By the time I got out of the car, I had another number in hand: the marijuana dispensary he used to work for.

Getting home, I got a call back from my doctor's office. Unwilling to budge, her assistant cited her lack of interest in ever prescribing a narcotic. I hung up the phone, and immediately called urgent care and verified that they, in fact, did not share the same beliefs toward narcotic pain relievers under the right circumstances. Getting an affirmative answer, I asked for the wait time, and the receptionist told me it would be an hour to hour and a half, but then asked me to hold the phone. When she got back on, an emergency had occurred, and the wait time was, now, 3 to 3 and a half hours. I thanked her and checked my voicemail.

Low and behold the acupuncturist was returning my call, and could squeeze my in last minute before taking off for the weekend to Washington. My landlord also got back to me, allowing me to borrow his jacuzzi for a bit to take the weight off my back. With an hour to kill, I did just that!

Finally, at the accupuncturists office, I found a man willing and ready to listen to my aches and pains, sort out a priority, and aim for a goal. 2 hours later I could walk upright with little to no pain in my back, relaxed, and renewed.

My dad picked me up and offered to take me to an astrophysics documentary, but started explaining the placebo effect and dragging me out of the necessary head space go not focus right back in on where the pain would have been. Iiiiii opted to get another Lyft home, just in time to be offered one of my landlord's pot brownies, specially designed to take away pain and relieve stress.

Wow! What a relief! I have a tack in my ear, keeping the pain stabilized for the next 3 days, 3 days to decompress, access to a jacuzzi and orders to take it easy for the next week. Some days just turn out lucky. I am so grateful to be surrounded by so many people who are ready and willing to help turn things around in my moment of need.

[mllesouthernbelle]

Unpopular opinion:

I believe acupuncture works in SOME people. It’s not “new wave bullshit”; it’s been around for hundreds of years. I have Interstitial Cystitis, Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, and Psoriatic Arthritis, and after my first treatment, I had total pain relief for the first time in months, almost a year. It may not work for everyone, and I get that, but don’t diss it just because it doesn’t work for you.

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