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Grandma, I’m so teachable.
When my mama came to you with Remnants of Tears Still Yet to Be Cried left in her sockets and the stiff smell of Sadness on her breath, did you touch her wrist first or take her full force into … Continue reading
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A Manifesto for Living.
Here’s to the ones who were never normal. Never conforming. Never able to sink into the soles of a follower. Here’s to the ones who were told to stop. To give up. To quit trying. To shove themselves into a … Continue reading
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And when you reach ten, start counting again…
A car accident will make you think. The boom-crash-churn. You’ll be standing off to the side of the highway & suddenly counting fingers & toes. One. & Two. & Three. & this one off to market. & this one is … Continue reading
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How to change the world by sitting on countertops, drinking hot cocoa, screwing calories and reading Neruda out loud.
Wake up. Don’t press snooze. Sling legs over the side of the bed. Right. Left. Turn on music. Good, Good Music. Like First Date, New Shoes, Better Yet- Bare Foot Music. You need a life soundtrack, has anyone told you … Continue reading
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“Welcome to your Chisel Day… Little One, Welcome…”
Yesterday was a Chisel Day. Absolutely a Chisel Day. You’ve had them too. I am so sure of it. You just may not have known to call it that. A Chisel Day? Oh, you’ll know it by the kind of … Continue reading
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The kind of life lived for red lipstick and poppy fields.
I never knew much of a woman named Dee. Sepia-stained photographs tell me she knew what it meant to stand laughing at life. Dee. She is a woman I only know from photographs and stories that slip out from behind … Continue reading
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Meet Hannah: She needs your love letter today.
It’s been tough to write here lately. If I am being honest, I work a good ten hours a day and all I am left with, when I reach the keys, is speechlessness. Over all of you and what you’ve … Continue reading
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Lady Gaga, she was born this way. Me? I was born for this.
If you’ve ever felt the love of another deeply, on the brink of fiercely, then I know you’ll pick up writing easily. Easy like the slow ease that slipped through the cracks in the doorway to the bathroom as you … Continue reading
Filed under Big Dreams, Hunger, Uncategorized
