Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the … - J. Ruth Gendler

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I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

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Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in. . . the same room with her.

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Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.

Eye, Journey, Loneliness, Lying

Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic. . . He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.

Forehead, Night, Secretive, Two, Worry, Years

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

Abuse, Fear, Large, Shadow, Small

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

Ask, Beauty, Daughter, Market, School, Summer

Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy. . . In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

Accent, Children, School, Sweaters, Volleyball