Attempt to Deal with Pain « Claire Montrose Presents Her Life

Attempt to Deal with Pain

I considered packing Dan’s order, and I considered working on a goat house since my goats eschew their motor home. Instead I went back to my puzzle.

Pain welled up, and up, and up. I decided to try to move it. I looked at it, decided to not take it quite so personally. This is a technique I taught myself during a Vipassana meditation retreat years ago. I let the pain melt away. That was good. Minutes later it kinda returned so I need to do more of that, but right now I’m thinking beer. And going to Mary’s for breakfast.

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Hi, I am Claire Montrose, crab, artist, mother, goat-keeper. Below is a photo of me in January, 2010. My children are Seattle sceniacs Ian and Tatiana. Tats has a wonderful blog on this and told me about it. I’m 63, soon to be older. Please see my website www.clairemontrose.com. I am also on Etsy under the store name Collectibella. I was a slightly famous artist in Yucca Valley, Ca., and my cross bottles are all over the country. Now I live in downtown Port Orchard, Washington, and this is all about being closer to my kids.

I was born Karen Tanya Kraft, in Phoenix. My father’s family was in Alaska and we lived there for several years. I came to Seattle for college and graduated from U.W. in 1968, in English. I also had the name Diana Babbitt, a family name, during the 1980’s. I dropped both the names Kraft and Babbitt as I learned about unpleasant things my parents had done, and I wished to dissociate myself from them.

Among other things, my blog is my attempt to tell the story of my childhood, publicly, for the first time. It could also be said to deal with the theme of “the management of a spoiled identity”, and the emotional and spiritual repercussions from a disastrous childhood.