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December 26, 2018
HAPPY SURVIVAL: THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE AFTER TRAUMA
People run from life in many ways. We can want a hug so desperately and yet recoil from it. We can crave love more than anything and build fortresses to keep it away. There’s this idea that the more bridges we burn, the harder it will be to go back to the things that caused us pain. Sometimes, that is true, but, at the same time, we keep looking for that place where we belong, and, in some situations, trying almost too hard to fit in, until we accept, with a great deal of shame, that we need to move on. Reaching out to people is overwhelming and terrifying, but we try it, and when we feel unheard, we vanish again. So many goodbyes––until we don’t want to do the relationship thing anymore or the intimacy thing or ask anyone for help or love or whatever the hell we need. Intimacy doesn’t seem worth any of that, and we lose interest. We shut down, close our doors for business, and thrive in our safe, predictable worlds.
October 15, 2018
ANNOUNCEMENT! NEW MAGAZINE!
Photo by KH Koehler Design Brave Wings is a new online magazine that focuses on the human condition—whatever we experience in life that helps us learn, grow, and evolve. Sharing perspectives about healing and empowerment can be exciting and helpful, but we also want to provide entertainment and fun while sharing the beauty of creativity. Some […]
August 12, 2018
LAST WORD
You made me laugh, And I forgot all the tears. You helped me up, And I forgot the times You let me down. You were hatred, Just as surely as You were love. You were everything right And everything wrong— Humility and Defiance, Cruelty And kindness, Approval and Contempt. You were everything And nothing. I […]
August 1, 2018
LITTLE TIPS THAT WILL HELP YOU CONQUER BACK PAIN
Originally posted on KYRIAN LYNDON:
People suffering from lower back pain often ask me how I manage scoliosis and lumbar spine disk disease, because I do manage it, despite having a disk determined to be “shot” rendering me a bad candidate for back surgery. One doctor told me I would end up in a wheelchair,…
People suffering from lower back pain often ask me how I manage scoliosis and lumbar spine disk disease, because I do manage it, despite having a disk determined to be “shot” rendering me a bad candidate for back surgery. One doctor told me I would end up in a wheelchair,…
July 17, 2018
Concise Characterisation by James Gault
Please enjoy this guest post by author, James Gault, and feel free to share your thoughts. Name of Books : Hard Times, by Charles Dickens and Ogg by James Gault The extracts: The beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times, where we hear Mr Thomas Gradgrind’s speech to the pupils of the school. ‘NOW, what I want […]
June 30, 2018
WHEN YOU RECLAIM YOUR FAITH, HEART, AND SPIRIT
Originally posted on KYRIAN LYNDON:
In Catholic elementary school, one priest admitted to our eighth-grade class that none of the Bible stories we’d learned in the lower grades were meant to be taken literally, that they were just “examples” to give us an idea. I had to ask. An idea of what? What the church…
In Catholic elementary school, one priest admitted to our eighth-grade class that none of the Bible stories we’d learned in the lower grades were meant to be taken literally, that they were just “examples” to give us an idea. I had to ask. An idea of what? What the church…
June 22, 2018
The Thing That Cannot Be Changed
Originally posted on amyhenrybooks:
And while the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past. . . (“Fountain of Sorrow” Jackson Browne) I’m going to borrow a little quote from Henry David Thoreau, used in my previous post, to introduce this one. You…
And while the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past. . . (“Fountain of Sorrow” Jackson Browne) I’m going to borrow a little quote from Henry David Thoreau, used in my previous post, to introduce this one. You…
June 2, 2018
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE “ROSEANNE” MESS
When you try to look at something from all angles, you make no friends, but I’m compelled to do it anyway. That said, I hesitated to write this because as others have wisely pointed out, horrible things are happening all around us every minute of every day, and here we are battling over a comedienne […]
May 30, 2018
THAT DEVOTED GIRL SHATTERED BY YOUR TRUTH IS FREE
unsplash-logoDiego PH I had a dream about you last night and woke up crying. I couldn’t sleep after that. In the dream, you were angry with me—full of anger, full of hate. You had shut the door on me and left me out in the cold. I kept calling to you with a child’s unbearable […]
May 6, 2018
CHANGING YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON CRITICISM HELPS!
“What other people think of me is none of my business.” Yes, I’ve heard that, too, but I agree only in part. We still have to be accountable for our behavior, and it doesn’t help to stubbornly insist we are fine—and that whatever we do is okay regardless of how many people say otherwise. It […]
