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I Am Afraid Of Geniality: A Conversation With Kali.

This is terrifying to me -- that the word geniality could have had such an impact on my self-understanding. I realize that kindness is a very real fear for me, and it’s not because I don’t wish to be a kind person -- some days it’s easier than others -- it’s because by being kind I open myself  ...

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wisdom

Bounce: A Journey Through Grief.

There will be some people who understand the passage you take, for they too have walked these lands, but many will not. It is not their load to carry or their journey to make, and they will sit expectantly waiting for you to bounce back, waiting for you to reach that distant horizon, so life  ...

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wisdom

For Those Who Feel Things Intensely: We Deserve Love.

I hope that one day I know a slightly less intense experience, but I laugh writing that because what if life is intense? What if things are just intense? What if I am intense and I feel things intensely, and that’s okay? Because it is. It sure doesn’t fucking feel like it, but ultimately I know  ...

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world

How Much Do We Know Ourselves?

Kindness and compassion ran to our arms. When we thought before we did not deserve the journey, An inner voice kindly whispered, “Go! Run and grab the opportunity to start over and forgive yourself again.”

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you & me

Healing Words For A Heavy Heart: You Are Brave.

It is early yet, and you fret your falling apart will never fall together, but these hollowed limbs and wooden splinters of who you used to be, and all you used to dream, will slowly be set free, stacked neatly in the hearth of your heart and lit to fuel the flames of your future -- a way  ...

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wisdom

Grief: An Unruly Companion.

As painful as this experience was, it was also the most sacred moment of my life. How grateful I felt to have been a witness to his life and his death. And how unsettling to be in the presence of death and yet feel so alive, so broken with sorrow and yet so riveted by the magnitude and majesty  ...

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