I've read our cells absorb the traumas of our ancestors - mine fled Lebanon as Christians fleeing the Turks in the early 20c. (Ellis Island) Perhaps this is why I, too, obsess w/ words. Love your… - Jenine Bsharah Baines

During my sojourning into the narrative wilderness, I obsessed with words. I gathered and stored them away like a squirrel saving nuts for the winter. I needed to reinvent myself, and language became a survival mode, freedom from insignificance.
The Psychology Of Transforming Real Life Into A Story
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I've read our cells absorb the traumas of our ancestors - mine fled Lebanon as Christians fleeing the Turks in the early 20c. (Ellis Island) Perhaps this is why I, too, obsess w/ words. Love your metaphor
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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