Healed but still plagued by dreams....

[Concerned_Listener]

Root,

I give you an excerpt from the poem Habit by Jane Hirshfield. I struggle with the replacing habits with healthier choices issue as well. It's part of the spiral upward of reinventing ourselves:

Open the traveling suitcase--

There the beloved red sweater,
bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber,
Each confirming: I chose these, I.

But habit is different: it chooses.
And we, its good horse,
opening our mouths at even the sight of the bit.


CL