25 Places and Things Behind, Under, or Inside Which I Have Hidden

1. behind doors


2. under the pile of blankets and pillows in the makeshift cupboard under the stairs in my maternal grandmother's house, because it was nice to be in the middle of everything and yet so securely alone


3. in several of my bedrooms' closets


4. behind the curtains in my grade two classroom to avoid being caught stealing my teacher's happy feet homework stamp


5. in the bed of a half-ton truck, pressed up against the closed tailgate, because I really didn't want my new friend's jealous girlfriend to find me with him


6. behind the chimney on the roof of my parents' house while I waited for my Venusian parents to retrieve me


7. down in the old cold cellar at my paternal grandparents' farm, because the day was so hot and dry, and the cellar's damp cold made me shiver


8. inside a beige cubicle


9. behind a large fan on the roof of my elementary school when a bully came a-knocking


10. around corners


11. inside over-sized pants and sweaters to keep people from looking at me


12. inside more public bathroom stalls than I can count


13. under a canoe at summer camp to avoid taking part in some team-oriented sporting event


14. inside the bench seating in a Scamper camper


15. behind the curtains at the front of a Catholic church I did not belong to while some kind of meeting was being conducted


16. in my apartment


17. on top of a pile of grain under an old wool blanket in a granary with my cousin


18. in a stranger's robust garden while thieving carrots


19. behind the secretary's desk at my parents' church when I was nearly caught abusing the photocopier


20. inside the middles of clothing racks at Woolco


21. on the floor of a Volkswagen Rabbit


22. under many different beds


23. up inside a poplar tree in my childhood backyard to get some respite from my little brother, who could not get enough of me when he was four


24. in the back of an old fort that had been abandoned by my father and his brother some time back in the 1950s


25. behind, under, and inside substance abuse

Comments

[Michael]

You are braver than braver, wiser than wise.

I bid you nothing but good fortune.

[Kirsten]

INSIDE THE CLOTHING RACKS AT WOOLCO! I remember doing that LOL Also? Running in and out through the carpet department... I -loved- that corner of Woolco, with the giant rolls of carpeting...

[kate]

. . . you are doing kick ass writing . . . really brilliant, core stuff . . . the last two entries were exorcisms . . . pure, unadulterated demon purging . . . if you were here, i'd make you a delicious green smoothie, that sound disgusting, but is really tasty, plus they help wash all the NO out of a body, all that funkola demons leave behind in their wake . . . i have an idea . . . how about we create a new green smoothie, right here, right now, in honor of your exorcisms?

Demons Vamoose On A Sweet Cloud of Yes
- blend on high/liquify for several minutes. drink first thing in the morning so that your body and heart and mind know the template of YES for the day
* handful of spinach (because as everybody knows, spinach makes you strong)
* four sprigs of mint (for cool soothing winds from all four corners of the earth)
* three large strawberries (for the Body Mind Spirit that you are healing)
* two cups of water (for the dual nature in all of us)
* one honeycrisp/fuji/gala apple (for the glorious perfection that is roundness, that could never ever be about original sin because sin is a lie)

happy rebirthing . . . welcome to the next phase of your living :)