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  • Stolen Moments at Perfect Times

    There is a quiet kind of rebellion in choosing what you want to do in a world that only speaks in need to, must do, have to. Our days fill up so quickly like teacups left under a running tap, overflowing with obligations until we forget there was ever space for softness. But there are…

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  • A Letter from a Poison Garden

    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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  • 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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  • Echoes in a Southern Louisiana Home

    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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  • Peace Looks and Tastes like…

    Peace looks different to every person and don’t let anyone tell you what you do to survive isn’t necessary. If you need to sit in a dark room for an hour, cry in the shower, or scream into the void, do what you need to do to regulate yourself. No one can truly understand what…

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