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Since 1998 I've been sending out these reflections first thing each
week--one or more quotes plus my thoughts about the intersections and
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Quote #1252 - #RecoveryStint
24 Aug, 2026
RECOVERY STINT
"Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable."
R.D. Laing
"We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself."
Bryant McGill
"The question is not how to get cured but how to live."
Joseph Conrad
So many illnesses and ailments
one after another after another
have eaten my summer alive.
Not that there haven't been great days,
great conversations, rehearsals, lessons, performances,
and more,
but always
also
coming into and out of
illnesses and ailments--
doctor visits, tests, meds, procedures.
It's all been quite exhausting.
Today took the whole day to write this--
in between naps
and trying to lay low
so that I really fully recover.
I know the process.
I know what it means to give over to the
damage, the incapacitation, the healing,
so that all optional suffering is avoided.
But, really?
This is summer break?
Shellen Lubin
August 24, 2026
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