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A New Piece for the Folks at MDA

1/26/2015

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I was very happy to have a chance to write an article for the folks at the Muscular Dystrophy Association recently. If you have someone you know who has pain from muscle disease, go check out my piece in their magazine, Quest.


Medication, Meditation, and Movement




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Hydrated

1/19/2015

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I just spent a week on the Oregon Coast with house full of creative ladies. That could have been a nightmare. Instead it was a dream. It was saturating. Hydrating. It plumped my brain. 

So, now you'll need to sit through another poem, because describing my week freaking takes poetry. A return to my regularly scheduled snark soon? TBD.


Hydrated

I didn’t know I was really that thirsty
until I took a drink.

Then, suddenly, water was everywhere.

There in the booms and blooms of the ocean.
There in the air in the forest.
There in the rain on the beach.

I did not have to gulp
or gorge
or sip.

I could drink when I wanted.
from the stream or from the coffee cup.

I didn’t need the water station
or the sudden IV in a hospital bed.

We were fluid.
Plump.
Full.
Saturated.

Now I have to make sure I drink a little everyday
just to stay moist. 

Amanda Dobbs, copyright 2015.


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Red Rocks on an Oregon Beach

1/11/2015

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A ferrous layer in the ocean rocks
means tiny red rocks all over the beach.
red iron,
attractive and attracting


adventuring apart


in little chunks and pieces.

Sometimes the water
scatters us
and rounds our edges
so we will have

 
stories 
to tell 

when the
 Na and the Cl
put us back together. 

Amanda Dobbs, copyright 2015
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    Hi. I'm Amanda Dobbs.
    ​I like to write, eat, and correct misplaced commas (mostly in that order). 

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