I'm off to restore myself with some maple syrup and look forward to posting a few more dispatches from Canada's comedy front-line shortly.
I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot.
"It's the place where I restore myself, " said Sharon Waller, a homemaker who lives in Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, and who has spent summers on the peninsula with her husband, Robert, an executive with a medical products company, since 1981.
After all the time travel into the future, I was glad to restore myself in the bog gardens designed by the regional office of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and a children's garden full of fat tomatoes and pink and blue sweet peas set up by the department of ornamental horticulture and environmental design at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa.
This sets up a dimension of my being that I can neither control nor disavow, and my only recourse is to wrench myself away from the other in an attempt to restore myself to the subject-position.
7 nights to restore myself.
We became friends after a really rough period in which I was demoted, isolated, and treated quite shabbily, though I couldn't afford to leave and wasn't in the best psychological state to do so (like, I was in need of health-insurance-paid therapy to restore myself).
While vacationing in Rome, after I had spent about a year back in Detroit, I certainly didn't find myself mentally restoring the Senate or the various temples or filling out the scene with centurions and charioteers.
Why continue on life's pilgrimage, for which I have no support but you, and none in you save the knowledge that you are alive, now that I am forbidden all other pleasures in you and denied even the joy of your presence which from time to time could restore me to myself?" Getty Images "But if I lose you, what have I left to hope for?
I was amazed that by suspending judgment, my creations flowed freely, and a most unusual thing occurred -- I began to reveal myself authentically and vulnerably to myself, which restored a sense of integrity I'd lost somewhere along the way.
