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March 30, 2023

Nunya BiZNess

What’s something most people don’t understand? I don’t think people understand what it is to live in someone else’s skin. Whenever someone has a problem on social media, commenters are full of answers based on their own personal experience, which does not necessarily transfer over to another. Imagine if we stopped worrying about what other… Continue reading

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March 27, 2023

I wish I could heal the world

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? I look around at this world, at those who seek power relentlessly, and those who are and would be oppressed by the power hungry and I see and feel the pain of those who do good unnoticed, and smell the fear of those… Continue reading

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November 18, 2022

Dissonance

Im only free when I drink free to say what I want and how i want when I don’t care that my barbaric yawp hits the wall and slides down into an abyss of silence silence that smothers and silence smothers me in this worldI am not made for I never realized this world is… Continue reading

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August 10, 2022

For Walt Whitman

Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not today is to justify me and answer what I am for. But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must justify me….I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then… Continue reading

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August 7, 2022

I disengaged

No more Facebook, Instagram or social media of any kind. It was literally driving me to distraction. I felt more stressed and more disillusioned with people on an hourly basis: all the petty disagreements, the need to be right all the time on the part of others, the feeling of not being good enough every… Continue reading

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July 19, 2022

Birches–A Short Story

I wrote this a few years ago after going through a relationship. I tried to understand a man that cannot be understood. I hope you enjoy my story. He stood at the window, staring past the birch trees swaying in the cold wind. Fall was descending rapidly, the kind of Canadian fall that slips in… Continue reading

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poet, diarist, writer, teacher, woman, fragile, strong, northern life is my domicile, my barbaric yawp exudes against the tide

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