Friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog, peace in the eye of turbulent storm. Friends make absurd profound, impenetrable simple, convoluted uncomplicated, mundane intense, and infuriating comical. Friends bless me with sustenance, brace me with encouragement; relieve […]
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Tomorrow’s Yesterday
It’s more comfortable to sit in a corner than to sort out a meaningful path, to stay in stasis at yesterday. I meant for my life to matter, I yearn for difference tomorrow though comfort means to sit around. How […]
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Jesse’s combat boots stand at attention beneath the bunk’s mattress perched on broken wire. Over paper-thin soles leather long scraped of shineable surface dries, still stained with the day’s encounter with Georgia mud except where the hole lets an old […]
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Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~ Jean Anouilh How old were you when you began to accept yourself as you are …or as you were then? Have you accepted yourself, or do you persist […]
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“We progress from hurting, to healing, to helping. We awaken to a sense of wholeness we never knew was possible.” ~ Adult Children of Alcoholics Solution Progress. From Hurting we come to Recovery. From hurting we soon move to healing, […]
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