The Memories You Keep

posted 25 days ago, updated 3 days later and has 2 comments
My sister is one of the most stressed out people I know. I used to wonder if she enjoyed a crisis, and arranged her circumstances, unconsciously, to provide just such events. Even when things are going smoothly, she is always worried about what is...

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Witnessing from afar

posted about 1 month ago, updated about 1 hour later and has 0 comments
And here it is, the destination realized. How is is that I can be so happy for them, and yet - sad that the goal was achieved and in a way I feel that I missed it.

I know that I was not meant to be a part of this adventure. I also know that with...

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Just because someone says it -

posted about 1 month ago, updated 24 days later and has 1 comment
A rationalization is a reaction, but is every reaction necessarily a rationalization?

merriam-webster.com/dictionary says:

rationalize

transitive verb
1: to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: as a: to substitu...

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Abstraction vs Reality

posted about 1 month ago, updated 4 minutes later and has 0 comments
Maybe it's the time of life. Suddenly you notice that people are starting to disappear. Friends, family even aquaintances you have occasionally run into through the years. Its like your life is distilling down to its essence, the core players in ...

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Dreams

posted about 1 month ago, updated 1 day later and has 4 comments
When my son was very young, my husband started
to talk about the trip they would take together
after he graduated from college.

They would buy motorcycles, and ride from Michigan to the Pacific Ocean taking back roads, and see all the sights alon...

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wounds

posted 2 months ago, updated about 9 hours later and has 2 comments
it is deep - i did it to myself,
i knew it was going to happen a
split second to late to stop it.
it bleeds so much and so long
not so much painful, as shocking
there is a moment before i cry out -
but not asking for help.

the blood cleanses...

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Is is someday, already?

posted 3 months ago, updated about 23 hours later and has 1 comment
I watched my little boy buy his first suit yesterday.

Graduation is next Saturday, with the interviews to
follow to soon.

Part of me is happy and excited for him, and proud -
oh so proud. He has worked so hard for this day, full time job, an...

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