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That Fall Day

Sometimes, it just happens this way. Fall slams on the trees, the air chills, and I remember. I remember running, my feet pounding into the soft pavement, the smell of my new leather jacket, and catching up with her and running faster, faces streamed in …

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One Word

The words echoing in your head, heart, and soul are there to remind you that you are sentient, cognizant, and have something worth sharing, repeating, and living.  And there’s a singular obsession we all have to make them known: call it passion, destiny, fate, or …

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Sympathy v. Empathy – #1

Do me a favor. The next time someone says, I’m struggling with something Don’t say, We all go through it. Don’t paint over their wound. It takes trust to admit, strength to say I’m hurting. When you paint over their struggles with a broad brush …

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your second hand

your name became a scroll across the bottom of the screen today – followed by dead. needle. arm. and I wonder if at the moment when your second hand stopped you knew the gravity of it, or did it surprise you, too? did your eyes …

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That Fall Day

Sometimes, it just happens this way. Fall slams on the trees, the air chills, and I remember. I remember running, my feet pounding into the soft pavement, the smell of my new leather jacket, and catching up with her and running faster, faces streamed in …