Lest They Heal we should guard our wounds lest they heal and we forget the lessons learned from hurt Night...
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I have been hurt
by those who are closest to me
blood, family
I have tried to identify what I did for them to hate me
sleepless nights lost thinking about those who couldn't care less about me
dreams interrupted by visions of my family
the same people who were supposed to protect me, respect me
all they did was...
I visited Kenya for the first time in the summer of 2007. And what I encountered there—the culture, its breathtaking landscapes, its wondrous wildlife—forever altered the way...
Sarah Parisian, a little 8-year-old girl, finished her last radiation session in a Chicago hospital and she and her mother travelled home to Minnesota, USA...
It’s hard to know when it began. Perhaps it started with my first web page. That moment I typed out my first cautious lines of HTML, and uploaded the document to the mysterious...
A solid premise for deciding the healthiness of a food item is seeing how recognizable it is as a product of nature. We’re repeatedly shown that Mother Nature really...
This Just In
Right now in my city
the sky is pink and gold.
Right now, clouds
polish their wide sides
on the late sun and blush...
~Gloveless Venture~
You
Say I must
Go out into the world~
Where sun once bleached the pale orange surface sand to whiteness,
Snow now falls on that same space to whiten. Snow falls, each shape
A different elaboration, all identity is false, falls in slanting patterns,
Each slant a different angle. There is no whiteness, only millions
Of different whitenesses. Snow also falls on the dark shiny oval of a pond,
A spider web of a...
While studying my mind through mindfulness practice, I've noticed skeletons and old demons are hidden within the depths of my consciousness waiting to be seen and...
The ferryman stepped off the dock and looked upwards over the low-rising hills.
The flow of passengers had abruptly stopped in the mid-afternoon. When he’d returned from his last journey to the distant shore, it was unearthly quiet as he docked his boat back at the point of embarkment.
He’d seen moments like this before...when the platform was devoid of souls and he'd have a...
To know our deeper Self means to be in touch with our inner realms, to be able to reach down, take root and remain calm and clear under any circumstance that...
Will Tucker glanced at the exam booklet that the teacher placed on his desk. The room was thick with tension as the 20 students in Garrett Faulkner's American history class waited to begin their final exam for the fall semester.
Shenandoah County Preparatory Academy was a charter school and most of the students...
Growing up in a well-to-do American family is materially comfortable. Family troubles aside—and they can be considerable—life is full of pleasure: desires are...
Laughter is the best medicine. How true indeed! Have you noticed how freely children laugh? Statistically, children laugh between 300 and 400 times a day, compared...
Dropping doctrinal delusions,
Secular political ire,
Finite angled loss
And way too much historical
Backpack weighted-
Warring, dropped tonnage
Of endless weigh-lied ‘syn’onymed...
Millions of years ago Breakheart Woods, between Saugus and Wakefield in Massachusetts, had been bookmarked by boulders and earthly cataclysm, and to this day, somewhere in its innards from those first struggles of granite and earth fire, from violent fractures and upheavals to be known again only at the end of it all, was a cave, a cave as dark as a...
Flight
for Jackie
It is before dawn that we tell each
other our stories. In this way we relive
our atrocities, mine...
Human experience occurs on many levels—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual—with or without our being consciously aware of it. In fact, we're normally...
They climbed on top of the hill and laid out the blanket. Annie put down her bag then pulled out the glasses and bottles. Sarah looked down and saw the school, the bulldozers at the gates. Everything was still now and they couldn’t see any of the people moving yet.
“They don’t start until 6 p.m. I think the headmaster’s making a speech for the...
The rear-view mirror held a nighttime fireworks display. A blast of red followed by two white-hot flashes ensured a traffic ticket and photo in six weeks. William, in haste and late to his first date with Cindy, was sending a text and rushed through a red light. Time wouldn’t be kind tonight; however, the evening had embraced a kismet, and still afforded new opportunities.
John Howard spotted the boy as soon as he and Emma came out of the movie theatre. The child was wearing a filthy, ragged tee-shirt that was several sizes too big, khaki shorts with enough holes for John to glimpse the boy's underwear, and tennis shoes. He was slightly built and appeared to be covered in several layers of grime. "Do you know that boy, sweetie?" John Howard asked his 5-year-old daughter....
My brother Larry would have been 57 today. In the winter of 2001 he died on the streets. He had spent most of his life on the road—picking fruit, working seasonally cutting Christmas trees, but...
Do you know what your next step is? Or more commonly: what are you going to do now? I’ve just returned from my son’s college graduation, at which this seemed to be the reflex question that he and his classmates...
