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A Blog About Ocular Melanoma, Multiple Sclerosis, Religion, Writing, Life, and Death

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Author: Kathryn Carson

I have Multiple Sclerosis, Hashimoto's Hypothyroiditis, and a black belt in taekwondo. I'm also an ocular melanoma (OM) survivor, and a sort-of Buddhist. My odds of being all these things is roughly one in a gazillion. This explains why my writing might be kinda obsessed with apocalypse...societal, religious, and personal.
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Right Speech: Learning Instead of Losing

4 Apr 20194 Apr 2019
In Buddhism, there is what's called the Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. The theory is,…
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Fred the Head, and Green Lantern

2 Mar 20192 Mar 2019
Tallahassee, Florida--Doak Campbell Stadium--1990 I'm at my first college football game. I should feel ecstatic. After all, I'm doing my first really crazy thing as a freshman in college, something…
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DWDs

8 Jan 201919 Jan 2019
This can't be a long one today, as I've got reading to finish for group tonight. But today something stuck in my craw, and it was yet again caused by…
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What do I say?

3 Jan 20193 Jan 2019
What do I say... ...when I come face to face with the person the world failed...when I'm the person for whom everything went right? I'm one of two OM patients…
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The Envoy of Mr. Cogito

21 Dec 201821 Dec 2018
I love and admire poetry, and wish I could write it. In those rare instances that I find a piece of writing that encapsulates a hugely complex emotional territory in…
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Sermon on What We Leave Behind

5 Dec 20185 Dec 2018
I'm in some strange mental territory here, so bear with me a while. I hope to make it worth our time. First things first, though--disclaimers. No, I have not received…
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To save time…

5 Nov 201814 Nov 2018
I have several t-shirts that are hand-me-downs from my husband. After one too many hot-wash-and-dries (a laundry requirement when I'm a cancer patient living with an elementary-age child and a…
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The Five Recollections

31 Oct 201828 Feb 2019
I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, but this is the first time I've stumbled across these teachings summed up in quite this way. The Five Recollections are kinda youchie.…
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The Cost of Cancer Treatment, Part 2

8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018
I've talked about this before. And I'm pleased to report that, despite their representative's assertion, BCBS has, in fact, been paying for my care. Originally, I was looking at anything…
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Sermon on Altered States

30 Sep 201815 Mar 2021
The existence of mystical states absolutely overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate dictators of what we may believe. —William James, The Varieties of Religious…

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Kathryn Carson

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Midlothian, VA 23112
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