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I'm reading about habits. It's something I do--read about habits and schedules and stuff. I do it when it's time to re-engage with life. I'm wanting to get back into things. There's been six months of my life that feel lost--I was surviving, plodding along, grieving...

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You want vicissitudes?

I'll give you some vicissitudes. (Alternative title: Another Really Horrible Thing That Happened to my Family) Life is... terrible. Have you noticed? It is also beautiful. The last few months have been an incredible case in point of these two realities. A horrible...

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She’s Gone.

She's gone. After more than 10 long years of suffering, and 12 days of being largely unconscious and not taking food or water, my sweet mother Michele Mousley Weed passed away this morning at about 6:00am PST from complications of Early Onset Alzheimer's disease. She...

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The truth about the Mormon Mental Health Association

If you have ever contemplated looking for a Mormon therapist, or are interested in mental health as it relates to Mormonism or issues around sex addiction and pornography addiction, this post will be of interest to you. If not, this might not be your thing, and that's...

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Lamb of God

I'm doing something very new to me. This Sunday, and the Sunday after, I'm singing a solo in an oratorio called "Lamb of God." I'm playing the character of Thomas. I've never, until three weeks or so ago, had a voice lesson. No training. Just a lot of singing loudly...

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Winds of Change that Change Nothing

 Photo attribution: here I am feeling the winds of change here at The Weed. But that's nothing new. I feel the winds of change over here regularly. And then I write about those winds of change, becoming all meta, and then 80% of the time, nothing actually...

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At the outset of a really big year…

This year feels big to me. I'm halfway through being 35. Maybe that's why. If there is any youth in me left, I feel like it's about to eked out in the next few years, like the last blobs of toothpaste in an almost empty tube. I still look almost young, but my hair has...

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Birthday

This is another sad post about my mom. Today's her birthday. BTW, I have another post I'm working on about my trip to Rexburg, which was a really great experience. But before I finish that, I felt the desire to post what I wrote on my Mom's Facebook page today. It is...

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Strange, the things that bring out the grief.

A sentence, transcribing my mom's journal. She says "I'm going to miss Relief Society, but I'll be back soon enough. . ." She is 25. I've just been born. She has been called to be in Primary, and she is excited to be working with the kids for the first time in years,...

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Sometimes Saints Swear

Hey! I'm posting again like the champion blogger that I was always destined to be. YAY!!!!! I have a few things to post in response to my last entry, because apparently I can't blog about anything except blogging itself. That's how the professionals do it, you see......

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