Reflections

  • 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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  • You only wrote to me once, like planting a message in a place you had no intention of ever returning to. The silence should have been a quiet closing of a garden gate. But my hands clear dead leaves to search for another message, thinking it might be hesitant to bloom as if you were…

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  •        The American South has a way of speaking. Down here, the air holds onto secrets, sorrow, and the quiet weight of being human.  South Louisiana has its own way of revealing what lingers. Here are some ways Louisiana hints at her secrets…   Every reason has its own secrets that are slowly revealed to…

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Anyone will tell you that Louisiana isn’t like anywhere else in the world. While it is part of the United States, Louisiana, especially south Louisiana, feels like its own little country. Full of bayous, lakes, boudin, and weekend festivals, south Louisiana will always give you something to talk about and a place to “pass a…

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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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