http://mfernandezplenge.com/smallobsessions daily 0.75 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472867564697-90YDA9YMNNFYHTMAVMVH/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsessions1.jpg Small Obsessions - X.G. // Changzhou, China. The glimmer from the past leads and sustains to the unpredictable future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472867564697-90YDA9YMNNFYHTMAVMVH/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsessions1.jpg Small Obsessions - X.G. // Changzhou, China. The glimmer from the past leads and sustains to the unpredictable future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1486839106358-GF9Y1EBS198E4OVEMWIK/Untitled-1.jpg Small Obsessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472867002043-17OLHI9CSW9OCPA12F3Y/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsessions3.jpg Small Obsessions - M.H. // Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt especially attached to seasons of transition. I have this need to write in order to archive times that feel in flux. When I was young, I used my journals as a way to creatively control my circumstances. I would do this by adapting my handwriting to represent the unfamiliarity in my life. Sometimes I still find my hand wander in new ways across the page.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472869678861-3SU2I1LFKBE9Y1FC5OZA/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession9.jpg Small Obsessions - K.M. // New York City, U.S. Pill 1. Multi-Vitamin - Basic Nutrition Pill 2. B Complex - Helps Stress Pill 3. Omega Complete - Helps Joint Inflammation and Skin and Hair PilL 4. B-12 - Doctors orders because it was low in blood tests Pill 5. 5HTP - Helps mood Pill 6. Black Cohosh- - Balances Hormones Pill 7. Folic Acid - Good for inflammation Pill 8. Vitimin D - Healthy Bones and Doctors orders because it was low in blood tests Pill 9. Asidophilus - Helps digestion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472868138763-K4MP65L0Y5TG127IRR9T/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession4.jpg Small Obsessions - W.W. // Tainan, Taiwan. Toilet paper orientation is important. I prefer my toilet paper to go over rather than under. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472867725377-SZ14HGQ5QLP7S19QB9LX/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsessions2.jpg Small Obsessions - O.F. // Venice, Italy. Sometimes I feel powerful because I'm able to eat a burger. I feel like I'm controlling my mind by eating something I would never allow myself to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472868973586-QIYSG29ZIKFQW5R21COA/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession6.jpg Small Obsessions - R.H. // U.S. I rip the skin surrounding my fingernails. When I'm waiting in my doctor's examining room, when I'm waiting on my counseling appointment to begin, I quietly rip and bleed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472868577862-UA5C32DGGRG1MKCX0G7X/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession5.jpg Small Obsessions - C.I. // Lima, Peru I developed an obsession with wrinkles in clothes that does not allow me to step out of my house without ironing them to perfection. Sometimes I even find myself not wearing a seat belt just so the fabrics on me look absolutely flawless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472869518137-L4W9NUV0R0XS78IPSRFA/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession8.jpg Small Obsessions - M.C. // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I feel that my life is a little out of my control and aligning the hangers in my closet is a way to compensate for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472870208021-0Q6N6NLPZUIOEPWZAJQX/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession10.jpg Small Obsessions - F.L. // Hong Kong I still remember the shoes that gave me this blister. Ecco Mary Janes, I believe. They were too small but for some reason a blister only formed on my right heel. And it's been with me ever since. An 8 year old blister - how sexy! I don't really know why I pick it. It's not a nervous thing, I do it when I'm relaxed and anxious. I guess I find the texture somewhat soothing or comforting. I always have and I think I always will. It's been with me through a lot of formative experiences. Maybe that's why I'm so reluctant to stop picking - it's a part of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472871659276-70RYDRF7HYZ6FFC6HW8G/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession13.jpg Small Obsessions - M.A. // West Riffa, Bahrain. Five years, four cities, moved nine times. Sense of security? Garbage bags and a backpack. Apartment horror stories? Plenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472870951493-758VTCHYTJ48HVYNS14U/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession11.jpg Small Obsessions - T.M. // Kyoto, Japan. Throughout the most of my twenties I didn't even know I was depressed. I thought the sad, anxious person I had been, really was just who I was. I started my therapy a few years ago, and it has been a slow but gradual process of recovering who I really could be. Those pills are only chemical in the end, but have been a great help for me in this process to realize that I could, actually, change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1486412983180-3RCBTPWN522TOKZ5Z2W8/caratula.jpg Small Obsessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1486840604736-WB0LKHZ6X6SAMFQW4JSK/12_Paula_Text_Intento2.jpg Small Obsessions - P.L. // Buenos Aires, Argentina It is in a non sensical object where you find unity. Only then do we truly experience the image and form, Instantaneous emotional gratification, concealing difficult truths. Aesthetic relief. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472864895014-CHU1C3JGL4735MNB89JJ/SmallObsessions_1.jpg Small Obsessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472869179826-8NQCKX5NSIXU76QQO0HO/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession7.jpg Small Obsessions - C.A. // Lima, Peru. Weight, scale, trauma, mirror, clothes, chocolate, flour, scale, self esteem, belly, exercise, endorphins, diet, carbs, sugar, saccharine, stevia, scale, ice cream, wine, cheese, light, light, light, butter, cookies, celery soup, detox juices, scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1472871369601-NU5GZAV8F7LUZDCUTQDQ/MariajoseFernandezPlenge_SmallObsession12.jpg Small Obsessions - C.E. // U.S. I wash my hands a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56469fdee4b0e2033a3cfa16/1644895007066-D46FUI5BGV1QWREIFMMV/Screen+Shot+2022-02-14+at+10.16.22+PM.png Small Obsessions