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Absolvi*


I will swallow whole; the heads, the tails and guts of all offenses committed upon me and those committed upon others, by me.

I will absorb the energy of these dark offenses ~ the poison, the pain, the betrayal, the shame, the hurt, the fury, the fear, the indifference.

I will gather heavy chains that I forged in order to carry dark offenses with me and I will free myself and all the others I had shackled to them.

I will allow those offenses, those dark pages of my story, their rightful place in my history.

I will build each offense their own tomb in my bones and marrow. Every last weighty moment lived, will have its own burial site and marker.

I will lay flowers and walk away ~ head high ~ eyes clear ~ heart open.

I will allow them to rest in peace and stop dragging what has already been written to clean pages.

I will use clean pages for new parables and legends.

I will put away the widow's blacks and veil and wholly reconnect with the living, mindful of my many blessings and my need to bless.

I will remind myself daily of the importance of remaining curious and alive to reason and choice with complete focus of head, heart, body and soul.

I will enter into a new and untouched land~ My own "State" of grace ~

And I will reign sovereign over my own life with soft step, shrewd eye, love and reverence.

It is so
Cranial bones)
frontal (forehead and eyes)
Parietal (most of the top and side of skull)
Occipital (back and most of the base of the skull)
Temporal (lower sides of skull)
Sphenoid (mid skull)
Ethnois (forms part of nose)
Ear ossicles - malleus, incus and stapes (found in middle ear cavity)

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Mandible (lower jaw)
Maxilla (upper jaw, parts of hard palate of mouth, orbits and nasal cavity)
Zygomatic (cheeks)
Nasal (bridge of nose)
Lacrimal (inner part of eye)
Palatine (hard palate of mouth)
Vomer (part of nasal septum)
Inferior nasal concha (side walls of nasal cavity

The Spine
7 Cervical vertebrae (neck)
12 thoracic vertebrae (mid spine/chest area)
5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back)
Sacrum (5 vertebrae fused together)
Coccyx (4 vertebrae fused together)

Thorax (chest)
sternum (breast bone) made from fusion of 3 bones: the manubrium, body and the xiphoid process
12 pairs of ribs:
1-7 are true ribs (attached directly to sternum by cartilage)
8-12 are false ribs (either attach directly to sternum or not at all)

Shoulder
Clavicles (collar bones)
Scapula (shoulder blades)

Arms
Humerus (upper arm)
Ulna (elbow and inner forearm)
Radius (outer forearm)

Hands
carpus (wrist) - a group of 8 small bones called carpals:
Scaphoid
Lunate
triquetral
pisiform
Trapezium
trapezoid
Capitate
Hamate

Metacarpus (palm)
5 small bones called metacarpals not named but numbered 1-5 from thumb to little finger (heads of the metacarpals form the knuckles)

Phalanges (fingers)
Numbered 1-5 starting with the thumb, each finger has 3 phalanges - distal, middle and proximal. The thumb only has two (no middle)

Pelvic Girdle (hips)
Coxal bones (hip bones) consists of 3 fused bones (seperate in children):
ilium
ischium
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Legs
Femur (thigh)
Tibia (shin bone)
Fibula (outer lower leg)

Feet
Tarsus - made up of 7 tarsal bones:
Talus
Calcaneus (heel bone)
Cuboid
Navicular
Medial Cuneiform
Intermediate Cuneiform
Lateral Cuneiform

Metatarsus
Formed of 5 metatarsal bones numbered 1-5 beginning on big toe side of foot\

Phalanges (toes)
14 phalanges of toes (2 in big toe, 3 in other toes)
Emptied and yet heavy with grief
She made the pilgrimage back to the Birch grove
Where once upon a time she played as a child

She made a nest from yesterday's golden and fallen
Crawled in and lie waiting
For the North to come and mercifully it came

Thick and harsh winter tears lay
Icy and frozen on her lashes
As beneath whitened eyes, stories replayed

Shoving and jostling each other
Among the snowy branches of her ancestral tree
Hungry to be the first retold

Silently, they filled her mind
Beginnings and endings sinking
Into her bones like moons slipping into dawn

And her stories are finally put to rest
And they will remain there, asleep and still beneath her winter tears


*Absolvi
Absolvi - to swallow and absorb our loved ones and our own, dark offences. To let these offences find their place in our bones and our marrow and lay them to rest there. Allowing hearts to be free to finally unlock the gates of their purgatory and enter into a new and untouched land, a "state" of grace, perhaps with the one you love, perhaps not ... but more importantly, with yourself and with your soul intact." - Madame Zora

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