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  • Become a Ghost instead of Haunted

    We spend so much of our lives being haunted. By people who left. By versions of them that no longer exist. By the quiet question of what did I do to make them go? We replay their words and our favorite moments over and over, flipping through a stored memory book we know we shouldn’t…

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  • Elegy for the Ordinary

    There are things we live beside so often we stop noticing them until they leave. Just slowly enough that one day you reach for them… and they’re no longer there. A great night’s sleepThe kind that wraps around you and lets your mind rest without asking why. Where is the rest without thinking about every…

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  • Poison Disguised as Medicine

    You walked to our lives as if you were a kind of balm designed to cure what never healed. Instead You ripped through us, almost gleeful as we bled into the open air, but healing doesn’t need to wound flesh just to prove it was broken. You damaged us just so you could pretend heal…

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  • Celestial Attachments

    Love is not soft or simple, but distant, burning, gravitational. Something you don’t hold so much as witness. Something that pulls, even when you try to stand still. People try to simplify it, saying love is this or that. But like the planets themselves, they all have unique characteristics, pulls, and orbits. The hardest part…

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  • Ways to Dim the Shadow of Anxiety

    My anxiety remains a shadow following me, always there even when there isn’t any light. I think we all experience it more than we would care to admit. Dealing with anxiety is a never-ending battle, so I am offering you some methods that work for me. This is not a replacement for your medication or…

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  • Placing Universal Boundaries

    You are not the ever-expanding universe. You deserve to have boundaries, but they don’t have to be perfect. When you are finally ready to put these in place after years of letting every comet and star collide with you, it is time for a peaceful evening. a small, defiant star softly glowing, still guiding. Just…

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  • What Can You Burn to Feel Warm?

    Feel icicles on your eyelashes? Are snowflakes drifting from your words? Certain people, events, and emotions in our lives have a natural coolness that steals your inner spark, leaving you frostbitten. So, if you are shivering, here’s a list of things you can burn to warm up: Bridges to places that no longer serve you.…

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  • A Slow Spring Welcome

          I really try to notice the small moments that make up our lives. Milestones always deserve praise and applause, but they only happen a few times a year if we are lucky. Every day is filled with little things to celebrate, and if we only live for the big moments, then our lives become…

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  • Three Things that Grow in an Abandoned Garden

    One moment you believe your garden is flourishing, then a gardener walks away, and you are left with silence and an emptiness you never thought possible, but here’s what is extraordinary about abandoned gardens. They grow what they want. It doesn’t matter that this red rose appeared in the middle of a daisy patch or…

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  • Silent Shatters

    Not everything ends with an explosion. Some of the most tragic events of our lives fall softer than a feather landing on the ground; however, the small moments crush our hearts more than the large catastrophes. Here is my list of events that caused my heart to shatter, in no particular order: What shatters your…

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