This episode is also available as a blog post: https://imnotgoood21blog.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/peppermint-words/
"Your words strike me like a peppermint mine,
The aroma, and the lasting impact, taking my breath away.
For sometimes your words burn my ears,
Like a peppermint plant burns my nose, but not out of maliciousness, for it too, opens up the senses.
Your words hurt, but only because my mind is too fragile to accept them at the time,
My world, too broken to accept the harsh truth of my own suffering — my own self-sabotage.
Why is it you see through me so clear, and your Love is so unconditional that you fear letting me fall?
You catch me at my weakest, and teach me how to heal, then watch me as I take my steps, and grin from ear to ear.
Why is it that some words last so long, the mind captures them like a record, a picture, or a song?
Sometimes they play over and over, and sometimes they fizzle out, never to be known again…
And yet, all the while, they tend to strike, like the aroma from a peppermint mine.
Words are mysterious, lovely, and strange sometimes, but too, they hold the world and shape it all the time.
I for one like peppermint, but I prefer words, anytime."
