J and I were walking our dogs and J was doing her usual complaining about Lucky and Lucky is a fence fighter and this drives J crazy. Someone walking by said, “Yeah, I’ve been a fence fighter my whole life.” <\/p>\n
There is a school of thought that you fence someone into a persona when you put a label on it – for instance, ADD suddenly swallows the entire person, who can now be reduced to one single acronym – A D D. <\/p>\n
Think of all the words that swallow you – FAT, ADD, UNHAPPY, WOMANIZER, BITCH, COWARD – these are big words that eat up whole people and spit them back out as labelled, as done, as they are what they are. <\/p>\n
Let’s lighten up a little – and see the complexities of all human beings – and move towards the light instead of dwelling on the negative descriptors that pull you down into an abyss you can’t climb out of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
J and I were walking our dogs and J was doing her usual complaining about Lucky and Lucky is a fence fighter and this drives J crazy. Someone walking by said, “Yeah, I’ve been a fence fighter my whole life.” There is a school of thought that you fence someone into a persona when you put a label on it – for instance, ADD suddenly swallows the entire person, who can now be reduced to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-w7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}