I’ve tried, really tried, yet to sooth the savage beast eludes me. Why? Tell me why! Others can! So why should this craving mock me, shame me, crush my soul? Others stroll from the beast, a whimpering kitten in their […]
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Easy Doesn’t Do It
Just because its hard doesn’t mean I’ve done anything wrong. ~ David S. When I’m naughty, refusing to follow rules, then fair’s fair, and easy feels wrong, feels undeserved, frightens me. When I’m nice, walking the steps doing the work, […]
Continue reading »Hope Is the Risk
Hope is the risk that must be run. ~ George Bernanos To run the risk – exposing self to possibly unpleasantness. Hope is the risk; the risk is hope. Risk, a word sprung from danger. So is danger ancestor to hope? […]
Continue reading »Twenty Seconds of Insane Courage
Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally, twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery and I promise you, something great will come of it. ~ We Bought a Zoo Insane courage. Embarrassing bravery. Twenty seconds. An old lawyer, […]
Continue reading »To Save Himself
How he does cherish the thought that man, risen so majestically from a single cell in the primordial ooze, is the spearhead of evolution and therefore the only god that his universe knows! Must he renounce all this to save […]
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