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what i do, what i’m learning

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3/14/23

because good things require good work

i have migrated here, to Word Press, after a very frustrating last year dealing with Weebly.

when i decided to dismantle my old website, i got to thinking about losing my blog posts and how important it was to keep them. then i thought of my old live journal posts. years ago, dale was supposed to get a program to “grab” them all, but we never followed through. i just figured they were gone. but they were not!

all those live journals, from 2002–2014, are still there! and how happy am i?

i grabbed all of them myself and they are tucked nicely into my private cloud. i realize what a true gift it is to myself that i have all these–thousands of them, days kept and recorded and pondered. what a boon.

i also thought of all of that recorded past because i have begun a new therapy–DBT. (look it up) it is basically cognitive behavioral therapy and a little Freud and a LOT of Zen practices and philosophies all blended together and I wish I had done this, known of this, well before now because i’m pretty sure it will help me change my life for the better, if i let it, if i do the work.

which is not easy, this work. not at all. but you get what you put in, as the folks in AA say–“it works if you work it”

Rebecca Cook lives in Chattanooga, TN. She grew up in North Georgia on a farm in Wood Station. She is a writer and visual artist, a writing teacher, an editor, and she has been known to preach in her local church, Grace Episcopal. She is a mom, a wife, and a homemaker/cook at present as she no longer works outside the home. She took her MA in English Literature (UTC), her MA in Rhetoric and Writing (UTC), and MFA in Creative Writing,--poetry, creative nonfiction, (Vermont College). She has published prose and poetry widely across the internet and in print magazines and journals.
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