Let me dream through the nightmares. Let me endure through the pain. Let me remember the good times and the laughs that we shared there. Let me resist the hollowness growing inside and the desire to give up. Let me find space, safety, and warmth. Let me see the light shining overhead again. Let me... Continue Reading →
Hello Internet! I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy. I’m doing pretty well. Just enjoying my holidays and relaxing as much as possible. During this time between Christmas and New Year’s, I’ve spent some time thinking about my 2023 and that inspired me to write this special blog as a type of time... Continue Reading →
In this small, quiet moment I am hopeful. Not because things are necessarily good. Or that I know things will be better soon. But because I believe things will get better eventually. Hope is not a fragile thing, waiting for rescue. Hope is a warrior that fights with bloody fists. A current that grows more... Continue Reading →
Hello Internet! I hope you all are doing well and staying healthy! Happy New Year! I know that it’s mid-January now but I have been on a break since before Christmas so I haven’t gotten a chance to wish you all a Happy New Year. Hopefully you haven’t given up on your New Year Resolutions... Continue Reading →
Hello Internet! I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy. I am doing well and trying my best to stay warm during this winter weather. Where I live, we have had several days of snow, sleet, ice, and more. So just a reminder to stay safe while traveling. Lots of people seem to forget... Continue Reading →
Prompt: "Due to a lack of donors, you sacrificed your own heart for a young child. Years later, the child learned the secrets of life and death, and was determined to repay you." Situs inversus is a condition found in about one out of every ten thousand people. It's a medical condition where people are... Continue Reading →
Thinking back before the pandemic.Being able to go anywhere without concern.Meeting friends and giving them a hug. Thinking back before unemployment.Delivering the mail and packages.Stressful moments coupled with lots of walking. Thinking back before graduating college.Hanging with friends in the dorm and making memories. Academic achievement and eyes full of wonder looking toward the future.... Continue Reading →
Can we watch a pandemic shake us And just return to the world as it was before? Or is this the final straw, That breaks our world down and lets it change. A world softened by an ongoing crisis Soft clay able to be molded by the people who live through it. Instead of looking... Continue Reading →
Six Word Memoirs Part 7 Sending Support To Doctors And Nurses. 2020 Feels Like An Entire Decade. Depression And Anxiety Don't Social Distance. Protect Essential Workers; Pay Them More. I Want To Hug My Friends. Stay Strong. We're In This Together. Header Photo created using Canva https://www.canva.com/ Six... Continue Reading →
Doctors and nurses suited up in scrubs. Wielding knowledge and medicine like blades and shields. Impenetrable walls between us and the sickness. Fighting the disease spewing pandemic by breaking though its scaly body. Bards will sing and share stories of your courage and your triumphs. While banners of red crosses and caduceus are held high.... Continue Reading →
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