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you & me

I Can Love You Better Now.

I wanted to be close to you. I wanted to inhale your exhale. I wanted to see my reflection in your eyes. I wanted to be rattled by the vibration of your laugh. I wanted to be awakened by the rumble of your snore. But the cavernous space between us was filled with too many tries and apologies.  ...

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wisdom

Notice What Pulls You, and Love What You Love.

Through many rounds of trial and error, I have learned again and again that a human and the world are like two magnets. The more I trust my instincts for living, the more I become attuned to the interplay between my magnet and the magnet of the world. Conversely, the less I trust my instincts  ...

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you & me

Make Space & Be Kind to Those Who Reject You.

To God I turned, and in Him I learned that all is just as it needs to be. This moment, this space, and the even greater distance between my lover and I, is what is and what shall remain to be. I chose to deepen my faith, and I miraculously fell into the grace. I did not fall easily though. I  ...

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you & me

An Adventure into the Unknown.

With previous relationships, she wanted to express what she felt, thought and wanted, but held back out of fear, of hoping he would say it first. This time, she told him everything. She told him who she was. She let him know she was too much, too little, too crazy, too weird, too ravenous, and  ...

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feminism

Invoking the Red Tent: A Vow to My Wounded Sex.

I feel a snake, uncoiling; an energy, unfolding. I see an earthen star forming the five points -- the rooted stakes -- of my hearth’s tent. I see it rise, solid and strong. Stoic, in a way, as it holds within its walls all of the mysteries, the atrocities, the stories and the epiphanies leading  ...

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