struggle through

I literally went to a place after school where they wore white coats and held clipboards and watched me struggle through reading on these machines that would isolate word after word.

“It’s something that I’m going to have to struggle through and figure out what to do, and I understand that there’s some urgency to get that out.”

Which brings us to the present moment, as the Mariners struggle through a difficult road trip that has seen them lose four of six games heading into Thursday’s game with the Rays.

“I didn’t know I would be here being able to live it, breathe it, struggle through it, love it, like I am right now.”

“Cinnamon” pays tribute to the grind — the years just ticking away for Jodi at the gas station and Eddie in his dead-end hustles — but this isn’t the same struggle through an underworld associated with Grier’s 1970s work.