The doctors want to know: what’s your pain on a scale of one to ten? So you try to calibrate your scale. Nine and ten are unspeakable. Seven and eight, numbers you might actually use if you felt like you were dying. Like the time you got mono and strep at the same time in […]
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Calendula
Delia picked me a bouquet of flowers from the backyard. It’s Calendula. It’s good for healing wounds, she said. You can eat it. Or you can dream with it. So I’m expecting dreams of orange and pink.