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The world has gone utterly mad! Where do you go to find your breath again?
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Love is...
“I wish the world still wrote in cursive.” – Vanessa Foster
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nostalgic for a 1970's summer of long ago
In summer, we would pack up our family of seven often.
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I am tired of myself, today.
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dear tuckered out orbs, I love you.
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do we change our minds, or does our heart change?
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What if I was always meant to be a fish?
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nostalgic for a 1970's summer of long ago
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What if I was always meant to be a fish?
Fish do not stare at their wrinkles or silvering hair.
Jul 7, 2024
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I am tired of myself, today.
I am afraid to say this out loud, but I must. Because keeping it in has been tormenting my days and my nights. I am living in a body I no longer…
Jun 21, 2024
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dear tuckered out orbs, I love you.
I love that I am a woman.
Jun 17, 2024
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Look! Look at how remarkable you are.
I do not remember the age I strapped on my first training bra atop my hopeful mounds.
May 22, 2024
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what to bring to my grave
I once met a woman at a retreat where we were learning calligraphy, making floral crowns, and eating butter-laden treats.
Jan 24, 2024
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do we change our minds, or does our heart change?
I have been musing on this: the idea of changing one’s mind, or rather, is it one’s heart changing?
Jan 18, 2024
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the deifying butterfly
Two days maybe three, perhaps only one, before my brother died, I bought a butterfly bush; because I wanted to try from my own backyard to save them.
Nov 15, 2023
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