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Slow down you crazy child You're so ambitious for a juvenile But then if you're so smart tell me, Why are you still so afraid? Where's the fire, what's…
Aug 6, 2021
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Emotional bodybuilding 🏋️♀️
I lost, so I forced a laugh. Instead of a red- hot rage or flush of self-hatred, I squeezed my stomach and wheezed a little chuckle. Each ha got easier…
Aug 4, 2021
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What if it ends? 🔚
Not starting for fear of an ending isn’t self-protection. Ends are inevitable, beginnings are not. I wrote this back in November of 2020 when I was…
Aug 3, 2021
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On a porch somewhere 🌅
“Where am I the happiest?” I wrote, like it was a trick question. On a patio overlooking practically anything, I answered without hesitation. Funny…
Aug 2, 2021
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July 2021
Wishes for a Thursday 🌅
I hope you are rested, I hope you are wrapped in a robe of fuzzy self- forgiveness. I hope there is a delightful to-do still to be done, and that a…
Jul 22, 2021
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A sweet prescription 🌞
Something soft, a squishy schedule, and a dose of “no” fill the soul like sunshine. I just finished writing a draft of a story about my “blankie,” and…
Jul 21, 2021
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Stalled out ⚙️
It stalled out again and again. My dad, patient, waved the cars behind me around us. I swore by then I’d broken the manual transmission, certain I’d…
Jul 20, 2021
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The ol' switcheroo 🪑
An IKEA table topped with a Mexican blanket our friends bought us at a desert gas station. Four wooden chairs, flaccid and creaking with age, scooched…
Jul 19, 2021
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Caesura 𝄞
The breaks and the rest make the rhythm. Wouldn’t everything be so cacophonous if we never stopped to breathe? Our faces blue, our fingers aching, if we…
Jul 16, 2021
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The buzz of summer 🪰
Summer feels like 4PM on a stoop. Maybe it’s the heat, or an overactive imagination, or bad eyes, but I can almost see film grain through the heavy…
Jul 14, 2021
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Mirror, mirror 🪞
Speak those words you most need to hear. Say them as yourself. To yourself. As much as I want to be a ventriloquist, I can’t put those words into anyone…
Jul 13, 2021
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Strength training 🏋️♀️
Are you becoming stronger? Your body can grow floppy and squishy— muscles are not what I mean. But can you take even one minute of your day with more…
Jul 12, 2021
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