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My lungs told me someone I loved was in trouble

My lungs told me someone I loved was in trouble

by Laura Lentz | Jul 25, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING

Years ago I lived in Huntington Beach with my musician boyfriend and his teenaged son. One weekend a month, to get a break from the teen drama, my boyfriend and I would escape to a hotel in Rosarito, Mexico, driving across the border on Friday night to hang with other...
My soul healed a man I hardly knew

My soul healed a man I hardly knew

by Laura Lentz | Jul 2, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING, LOVE & SEXUALITY

I was dating a film producer, but I hardly knew him, though my ear burned from the two-hour phone call that night –  my neck was pressing against my shoulder to cradle his life, the details traveling through satellites, from New York to Los Angeles, where I lay...
Risky Sexual Behavior, Pandemics & Grief

Risky Sexual Behavior, Pandemics & Grief

by Laura Lentz | Jul 1, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING, LOVE & SEXUALITY

In the mid eighties, after my beloved boyfriend died, I became, for the first time in my life, sexually promiscuous. It was how I moved through my grief, by sleeping with men I didn’t know. Through nightclubs and Madonna and sex in parking lots, from England to...
I had to learn we breathe with my whole body

I had to learn we breathe with my whole body

by Laura Lentz | Mar 5, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING, I AM THE HERO OF MY JOURNEY

When my heart stopped talking with my lungs I was informed I wasn’t a candidate for a heart lung transplant.  I couldn’t ask why, the question stuck in my throat like a small bird. When I finally understand what the doctors were saying, I walked out of the hospital to...
If something didn’t happen to you, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

If something didn’t happen to you, it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

by Laura Lentz | Mar 4, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING, LOVE & SEXUALITY, OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving

Today a friend of mine said she isn’t sure she believes any people in the U.S. have died from covid because she doesn’t know any of them. And this statement gave me pause, made me think about all of humanity, how if something doesn’t personally touch...
We are each other’s angels on earth

We are each other’s angels on earth

by Laura Lentz | Feb 20, 2021 | BODIES BREAKING & HEALING, OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving

Five years ago, a man fell 25 feet out of a mango tree near my bedroom window and the sound of his body hitting the ground woke me. Followed by the kind of scream you never want to hear again. It rattled the stones in my driveway. Stories often don’t start out...
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