Tag: Life
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Mourning Routine
Everything, everything I have counted on for all my years ended this year. It wasn’t a surprise. My grandmother had tired of life. So she ended it. For the past year after her last hospitalization, the bad one; the one my sister, and mother and I dropped everything for, was preparation for this. The last…
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Reflection on Good Things in a Year of Pain
It’s funny how this works. This time last year, I was suffering immense physical pain. I was isolated from everyone I knew both in quarantine and distance. Oh yeah, and Winnie died. Surgery was imminent. I had to go to physical therapy for my face. People all around the world seemed to be embroiled in…
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This Week, This Year, This Time
Aia is coloring wooden blocks in art class. Why? So she can make dice. She’s also concerned for the Huntress’s love life in the Justice League. I’d say my daughter needs a hobby but she doesn’t. I’ve decided join up on the beta of The 101 Method put together by Steve Barnes and Mushtaq Ali. …
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Winter’s Night
Tonight begins the three days of otherworldly influence. I’ll be cleaning the altars are around the house and putting out offerings to the wights and ancestors. Then we go trick or treating and attend parties. In the face of death it’s best to celebrate life. My room is almost done. I am in the process…
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The Secret
I’m reading The Secret right now. During lunch a co-worker comes in as sees me reading it. “Everything you think is a dream,” he says. “But you manifest the dream into reality. Once you break the conditioning…anything is possible.” This is the universe speaking. Pay attention please. This life changing moment is brought to you…