Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page. You Think You Know Me By Karen Handyside Ely You think you know me, but you don’t know… that I am struggling with a powerful bout of depression. I’ve battled it before. I’ve been in deeper, darker, more dangerous pits. This current episode has rolled over me slowly. Not a storm, but more a dense, thick, cloud cover, wrapping me in the heavy humidity of numbness and ennui, pinning me to the ground with a listless, languid, low-grade despair that makes me want to sleep all day. I’m suffocating one breath at a time… in slow motion. This time around, my depression isn’t a raging sea, which has been my usual experience, but an ebbing tide that creeps back over the sand as the fog rolls in to smother the beach. I could cry, just writing…
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Humor
By Karen Handyside Ely When the day is dark humor will light my way. When the world crumbles humor will shore me up. Tears will flow, not from sorrow, but born of laugher. Nothing is so bad that humor cannot soften it. Nothing is so sacred that humor cannot humanize it. When the only way “through” is a walk of fire, humor will insulate my path. As long as we can laugh at the absurdities of life, we can persevere. Humor cannot change our challenges, but it can grease the skids, shepherd us along, help us to survive. I will face each day with humor and the grace it provides. As long as I can laugh, I can breathe. Humor is my lifeboat, my safe space, the fuel my soul runs on. Karen Handyside Ely Karen was born and raised in Petaluma,…