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Alaska Love Poem

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 14 February 2010
In 1984, during my troubled early twenties, I fell in love with a friend of mine. This poem was written to her. But it's especially a poem about how I came to love myself, & to give up my former self-hatred.
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Actually, I kinda like clouds…

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Clouds are actually really beautiful, when I'm not feeling grey. A little about the aha! experience of 1984, when I permanently came out of my former self-hatred.
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Ode to Alcohol (poem)

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 25 June 2009
I’m a safe drinker nowadays (& besides, I love this photo, & Midnight Sun Brewery makes some good stuff!), but back in the day I drank waaaaay too much. Yet it played a role in my letting go, eventually, of self-hatred. It, & my friends.  Same poem I mentioned in my last post. Prosody geeks: [...]
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A brief spiritual history

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 27 April 2006
In an online group I’m in, the topic came up of our religious/spiritual history, & how it integrates or doesn’t integrate with our sexual orientation as lesbians. Here’s the short version, as written there (with some emendations). 1. Junior high Jesus freak I was raised in the Episcopal Church (the American version of the Anglican Church), but [...]
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