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Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Imagine your body is heavy and filled with sand, and as you exhale, feel the sand slowly draining out of you. Breathe and exhale until the sand is all gone.
Benny and his family were to be their ostracized Other, against whose strangeness they could define their collective normality.
That a slot is a thing, we cannot deny, however it is a thing defined entirely by lack, by an absence of form, by negative space, by its own emptiness.
Great is the Matter of Birth and Death. Life is transient. Time will not wait. Wake up! Wake up! Do not waste a moment!
Why was it that women could never work hard enough to quiet their nagging fear that they were not enough? That they were falling behind? That they could and should be better?
Because if there was a right way, then perhaps they could find it, and if they found it and learned the rules, then all the pieces of their lives would fall into place and they would be happy.
You are perfect, just as you are.
And, too, you could use a little improvement.
Relax! Stop trying! Stop buying! Let’s just sit around together and do nothing for a while.
‘Ze truth about stories is that is all we are.’ A famous Cherokee writer named Thomas King once said this. We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.”
Dr. Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher,
