kelly keena
sit-your-ass-down disease.
Outside in the world, I move quickly, urgently through my to-do lists. Until I have to sit my ass down.
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EXPLORING RESILIENCE FROM WITHIN A CHRONIC ILLNESS
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kelly keena
- May 1, 2022
- 6 min
mis-fortune teller.
Chronic illness brings a special skill - that of seeing and feeling terrible events that will probably never happen.
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kelly keena
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
tipping the scales and writing again.
I stopped writing because I was edging on perpetuating more fear than love.
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kelly keena
- Jun 1, 2021
- 6 min
holes + chronic healing.
Healing is the longest stage. It is the stage that bears the heaviest burden and is discussed the least.
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kelly keena
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
a new winter solstice.
The winter solstice feels sacred to me always, but this year it was simply cathartic. Possibly because of the great conjunction of Saturn...
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kelly keena
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
year of the robins.
Perseverance makes total sense to me. And I know the meaning of a bird by someone I don’t know isn’t science. It is hope.
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kelly keena
- Jul 24, 2020
- 3 min
laying with a dying dog.
Laying with a dying dog is humbling. A keen reminder that each of the breaths that cause the rise and fall of his ribs is priceless. A gift.
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kelly keena
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
because it's invisible.
If and when I choose to go out, in my mask, and I cough, what will happen?
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kelly keena
- May 17, 2020
- 6 min
learning to feel
Moths, zombie fungus, and ocean waves. You’ll see what I mean.
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kelly keena
- Apr 26, 2020
- 6 min
what is resilience?
it’s a word I am hearing more and more. I worry that like other big, densely packed words, we will overuse it without meaning or context...
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kelly keena
- Apr 19, 2020
- 4 min
there is no liberation
this is so hard. resilience is not forced. it’s not wo/man-handled into existence. it rides along with persistence and patience.
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kelly keena
- Apr 16, 2020
- 10 min
covid negative
but fevers have changed. with the symptoms of covid-19 across the info-sphere, it is impossible to ignore that fevers mean something else.
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kelly keena
- Apr 5, 2020
- 10 min
story from the ventilator
it’s a shock. it’s all sensation. it’s complete surrender to strangers in layers of protective gear (hopefully. dear god, hopefully.)
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kelly keena
- Mar 29, 2020
- 3 min
dig in and cocoon
each species has its own version of this story. we need our own collective version of this story.
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kelly keena
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
patience and sitting your ass down
I am not of the mind that this virus is a blessing. I know viruses well enough to know that is hardly the case. Instead, perhaps this time o
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kelly keena
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
listen for the birds
nature lends healing and support to our mental well-being, especially in challenging times.
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kelly keena
- Mar 13, 2020
- 2 min
CF in the time of coronavirus
social distancing is not a new term. ask someone with cystic fibrosis.
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kelly keena
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
without fail
two hours. every morning. routines are critical to my success as a human and well-being as a patient.
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