Blog Posts for Linda C Wisniewski

The Still Center

Linda C Wisniewski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:20:40 -0800

My memoir's subtitle is A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage. Inner peace is my personal daily practice. Peace is that hummingly alive place where I don't fight. I don't do mental violence to myself for looking crooked in my clothes, I don't do emotional violence to my mother for not being a feminist like me, and I don't do verbal violence to myself ...

Happy Halloween Birthday - Boo!

Linda C Wisniewski — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:05:45 -0700

The cards have started appearing in my mailbox. My birthday is very close to Halloween. Sometimes, people send me the ones colored orange and black with cats and witches on the front. They read Happy Halloween Birthday! The thing is, Halloween was my mother's birthday. People still get them confused - wasn't I born on Halloween? Nope. But that's okay. Close enough. My husband was born on ...

Forgiveness is not what you do

Linda C Wisniewski — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:29:51 -0700

It took a lot of years and a lot of livin' before I realized that forgiveness isn't something you do. Forgiveness is all about what you don't do. You don't wake up and replay the argument when they hurt you, practicing better retorts. You don't think of what they did and said years ago to wound you, while you take a morning shower today. You don't remember, over breakfast, that you were abused ...