health – Thistle Thoughts

Ojibwe Prayer + Update

These days when breath is hard, when new pains & new ailments nearly overtake me, I’m finding it easier to pray through it.

I pick scabs in layers
to know exactly what being an
obstacle to your own healing
looks like

As if the body didn’t have enough foreign invaders to fight off.

When too many bad days in a row occur, I start to wonder if this is just how it’s going to be from now on.

I think I’ve transcended pain flare-ups.
I’ve been husked.

We’ve been running on fumes the past couple of days.

This winter has been a deep freeze.

My poor husband is in the hospital…