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Odin’s Bones
It’s funny, I was out for a walk and thinking about Odin’s leg. How the one that was broken is longer than the one that didn’t get injured.…
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Arriving by Writing
On occasion (okay, daily), I try to find meaning online. That is, I know there is something I seek, but am unclear as to what it is. So…
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Don’t cancel cancel culture
Why? Because cancel culture is the most humane, lenient way to deal with people who break the rules, and I’m all for leniency, as long as it’s fair.…
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Radicalized, Right?!
I’m so tired of liberals being branded “the radical left” whenever mentioned in GOP-friendly media. Afterall, I’m a friggin’ middle class, middle-aged woman who simply wants my gay…
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A poem on what it feels like
… to be only a small part of a needed solution (and I want to be bigger) Speaking, sparkling, skinny-ingThat small person with a big message I am…
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Exhale and Prepare
I am taking a deep exhale today. My president honored the 400K dead at a memorial last night. He cared. He will be sworn in in a few…
Culture
Breaking the natural and mythic laws of life: a primer
and a powerful path forward for good grownups Yesterday, January 6, 2021, American law was flouted when people broke into the Capital building, committed violence and halted…
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On the morning after the Georgia runoff, for Stacey Abrams
A little contextual note. I wrote this in delight and wonder at Stacey Abrams who had moved mountains in Georgia. On the morning of January 6, 2021, before…
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Take a break, cause you are broken
I’ve noticed, ever since I’ve been responsible for humans other than myself, that I get sick every time I have the time to get sick. A day off…
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Smartphone shrine
The minute I took my meditation links and apps and organized them into a.Folder is the moment I knew I killedthem soI stopped. I letThe clutter of my…
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Nature of the beach
Like the wavesWishes, and dreams, and focus fanciesAre coming toward relentlesslyOne after anotherIt is the nature of the beach The question is not whether they are washing, wooshingtheir…
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When I was before now
When I was before nowI would hear the universe gong me into new thingsor clang me for missteps This is what you wantThat is what you should do…