You Don’t Need To Be Rescued.
By Alison Nappi
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you & me
Imagine If Money Didn’t Exist.
{Photo via Pinterest} Imagine if money didn’t exist. Imagine if those notes in your pocket were just a bunch of broken promises, unfulfilled IOUs, that at some point in time became the general currency of the world. Promises of silver and gold, moving from hand to hand, person to person, ...
Are The Demons Of Our Dreams Less Real Than Those We Create With Our imaginations?
I ask myself, as the raging customer hollers before me, what if she is not the way I imagine her to be? I ask myself, as the impoverished man sits under his shelter in the cold, what if he is not the way I imagine him to be? I ask myself, as I watch the roar of the wind, what if the world is ...
The Art Of Falconry: Keeping Our Love Wild.
“These birds do not need you. They know how to fly. They know how to hunt.” This was written upon the cover of the San Diego Reader sitting on the coffee table. In the photograph was a gorgeous image of a woman with a golden eagle mid-flight with its wicked talons splayed, reaching to grip her ...
I Don’t Want To Miss You Anymore, But I Do.
I no longer miss you with a consuming sadness or in a soul-shattering, heart-collapsing kind of way. In fact, it’s not even really sadness. It’s more of an acknowledgment that something that was once vibrantly ever-present is now gone. I imagine it is an experience not entirely unlike an ...
I Am Weird And Lovable And Kind: Being Numb Is No Longer An Option.
Poetry pours through the splitting holes and music runs through my hair. I chase the shadows scurrying and learn to silence the critical epilogue. Knowing, we are not an ending but living in a perpetual healing.
Wife Or Girlfriend: Follow Your Own Bliss And Break Through Social Definitions.
Isn’t that exactly what marriage is? A binding contract between two people (traditionally a heterosexual couple with the purpose of procreation) wrought with expectation and impending disappointment and heartbreak.
The Last 3 Words, If I Don’t See You Again.
When you find yourself truly alone in this world, starting over, and seemingly unloved, it is difficult to find empathy and walk in the shoes of another. Somehow, I was able to do that: through the love I had for my children, I could see their pain and accept my part in that pain.
5 Ways To Break The Addiction To Sadness.
Admittedly, I’d had some stressful and shitty things happen over the past few months. However, I realized within minutes of waking up that morning that I had been making a habit of being sad. I hadn’t just been reminding others that I was going to be sad that month, I had actually been ...