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  • When They Let You Down

    There is a particular kind of heartbreak that doesn’t come from loss, but from expectation. You place your hope carefully into someone and trust that it will hold. It’s the quiet feeling of failure that you gave something real, something whole, and it still wasn’t enough to make it work. You think about everything you…

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  • Never Have I Ever

    Never have I ever is a game you play with friends, where secrets slip out between laughter and raised glasses. You admit to things you might otherwise keep buried, comforted by the possibility that someone else has done the same. In all honesty, we all carry things we’d rather not revisit. By sharing and seeing…

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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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  • Shattering Unwanted Heirlooms

    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy One of my favorite lines in literature, but we are often more alike in our unhappiness than we realize. Each family’s pain manifests differently, in varying intensity, yet these truths exist in nearly every household. The saddest part…

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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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  • 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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  • What Wilted Roses Remember…

    We live in the moment now, but what happens when we slow down? When we are not able to jump in the car and drive to New Orleans on a whim? Or dance in the rain at midnight? All we will have is our memories… and I like to believe that all living creatures, even…

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  • The Quiet Strength of Closed Doors

    close the door. let it slam! Or shut it quietly if the room you are spending time in no longer brings you happiness… know there are other rooms that yearn for your company

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