I'm having trouble believing it myself. After weeks of grueling endurance hikes in the Arizona desert, carrying the burden of a grieving widow on her shoulders, and advising the naive group therapy instructor, Mary heads home completely refreshed. However, Pax has emptied her pocketbook so thoroughly that it is lighter than air and Mary is having trouble keeping it in her lap.
How much time has Mary spent at Pax Wellness, anyway? All that meddling with the Widow June, Distraught Aggie, and Supercilious Shannon seemed endless to us, but it was little more than a blink of an eye to Mary.
ReplyDeleteQuite a landscape in the rear window! If we didn't know better, we'd think Mary had been vacationing on Mars.
"Already"she says?!?!?
ReplyDelete"And MORE!"
ReplyDeleteMary: Pax showed me that I need to take up advising others full time, along with providing an exercise component. Once I get back to Santa Royale, I will set up my own business where troubled souls can heal both physically and emotionally. Worth Wellness World. I like the sound of that!
I hate to think how Mary would look if her time at Pax Resort HADN'T been what she needed.
ReplyDeleteBut indeed, the restorative powers of the beauty of nature did their job, and now she returns refreshed and revived, ready to unleash her meddling on Santa Royale once again.
gosh i hope Aggie's okay.
ReplyDeleteMary's Lessons Learned at Pax:
ReplyDelete* Avoid unattractive, mannish women in unappealing green clothing. Their issues are not solved by clever bon mots.
* Drink lots of aqua.
* Yoga instructors have good intentions, so hire them as counselors, surgeons, or other professions they're totally unqualified for.
* Customers who complain about shoddy service are whiners.
* Aqua. It gives your hair bun that lovely bluish tint.
Meanwhile, Aggie slowly loads a bullet into the chamber...
ReplyDeleteI think that Mary's raging narcissism has now reached the point that tomorrow - or perhaps after a week or so moving through the airport - she's going to be her own floating head as she reviews past interactions while jetting back to Santa Royale
ReplyDeleteThat's no purse... it's a portable typewriter case! Mary finds its weight on her thighs to be strangely comforting.
ReplyDeleteWhen will they explain how she lost a finger? Is that part of the change she has had to learn to accept?
ReplyDeleteI have a vision of Mary reflecting on her interactions at Pax on the plane. As she looks out the window, she sees June on thier hike, Shannon leading a Yoga class and Aggie riding her bicycle with Mary's dog (from like 5 year ago) in the basket! Aggie then cackles and rides away...I'll get you Mary Worth, and your little dog too!
ReplyDeleteMary's typewriter case is full of peyote buttons. The next Charterstone pool party is going to be one for the ages.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that a swanky outfit like the Pax Wellness Center doesn't provide some sort of shuttle service to the airport. What a better way to end your stay than a tight lipped van ride in the company of all those shrill harpies from the open talk session.
For those interested in the Mary worth book, it can be ordered at :
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Isabella Bannerman gives it 5 stars!
And leaving already? Already?!
ReplyDeleteMary, you've been gone for over two months. you left just after the 4th of July.
@Peggy Olson: Unattractive, mannish women in unappealing green clothes apparently do not, as you astutely noted, solve their issues by clever bon mots. They solve them by shopping excessively at Maisies. Yes, we're looking at you Bonnie, Bonnie Johnson.
Oh to be a spider on the headliner when he asked this same question of Aggie! "Did you enjoy your stay may-uh..hmm...er, Sir?"
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