After Many Years Of Self-flagellation,

Fear Runs Our Lives A Lot Of The Time. You Can Face It Head-on, Or You Can Hide In Your Bunker.

My Nipples Could Cut Glass.

I Feel Prematurely Old. I'm Actually Having This Major Belated Quarter-life Crisis. I'm Turning 30 In A Couple Of Weeks. I've Been Thinking A Lot About Mortality. A Lot About What I'm Going To Do With My Life And How To Enjoy It. One Of The Things I'm Going To Work On Is Being More Spontaneous, Letting Go, Embracing The Beauty Of Come-what-may.

I Don't Need To Worry About That, That's Always There On A Slow Simmer. The Muscle I Have To Work On Is Being More Present.

We Come From Fallible Parents Who Were Kids Once, Who Decided To Have Kids And Who Had To Learn How To Be Parents. Faults Are Made And Damage Is Done, Whether It's Conscious Or Not. Everyone's Got Their Own 'stuff,' Their Own Issues, And Their Own Anger At Mom And Dad. That Is What Family Is. Family Is Almost Naturally Dysfunctional.