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She Wouldn’t Look Away

She braced, eyes wide open, the offense that was violence on full display, she took in senseless actions taking lives, taking away children before they’d lived, taking away the healing with more violence. As it should be, she wouldn’t look … Continue reading

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Her Unseen Steps

Emerging from abusive nothingness, fathoming her unfathomable return, she longed for a path, a plan, and possibilities too fantastic to discern. She grasped truth with understanding, carried her lessons learned, found forgiveness, discovered tenderness, and embraced diversity’s worth. Her passage … Continue reading

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Shelter

Seeking an anchor to shelter, a refuge, a safe place, a call to the elusive humanity she longed to embrace. Imagining a harbor in time, many hands to hold, a haven for collective dreams too seldom known. On a sinking … Continue reading

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The Fabric

Cross-legged on the floor, she quieted her mind, sought the fabric that was existence, that was the entirety of life. She was unique, gifted with meaning and purpose, bestowed with the knowledge she could create her future one act at … Continue reading

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Humanity’s Growth

One, a word, also a number that even if multiplied, it only grows through addition, one joining with another and another like a sentence of seven words lengthening. The one becomes something more than it began, becomes a handful, a … Continue reading

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Rare Embrace

Clock ticking, she can hear it, there’s clicking, her heels on the pavement as she runs away from herself. It shouldn’t be possible while standing still, when the pain she’s holding is immeasurable. Where to run when ghosts are everywhere? … Continue reading

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One to Share

The years passed, her cherishing the healing she felt inside. She shared one written line marking each time her passion surfaced and she set it free. She opened windows, to let the darkness flee, to let there be one light … Continue reading

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Safe in Her Heart

Marveling, as they were, they asked to see it. Fragile, as it was, she held it with two hands. Asking, as they did, they wished to know. Answering, as she must, she shared the truth. Hope, it did seem, was … Continue reading

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Potentiality

See you, see in. Seeing yourself is where you begin. To discover, open your eyes, see strengths and weaknesses, possibilities, and lies. All of you is who you are, you’re potentiality. In your pursuit of self-honesty you’ll become what the … Continue reading

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Diversity of Mind

Where does it come from? How can it be? Ideas for a better tomorrow never before seen. It’s the wonder and diversity of the human mind, existing on a spectrum as broad as humankind. Let’s embrace and nourish, celebrate who … Continue reading

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