Category: acceptance
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Nini’s Farwell
When the fog that prevented me from fully participating in my own life, finally lifted, I had a lot to learn about our little girl. One of the first things that became crystal clear was that our little bundle of joy LOVED her “Nini”.
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True Colors
“My beauty advice may be lost on our three-year-old, who often prefers to eat the coconut oil intended as a moisturizer, rather than put it on her face. Or perhaps she takes my words literally when I tell her beauty comes from the inside out. Either way, she is having her own experience. My role…
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The Quarter
“This isn’t my first choice to be writing about my profound experience with a quarter in reference to my time travelling, dimension bending, deceased cat. But I often feel that what I write isn’t really mine anyways. I am simply the means to an end to get words to paper. Sometimes, I’m as surprised as…
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Taking a Gap Year
Watching this old woman relive her college days reminded me of Soren Kierkegaard’s quote; “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
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Ice Cream Heaven
“The ice cream is always flowing, and the conversation is always interesting in my version of heaven.”
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Purple
When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with cheetahs. Unfortunately, we lived in Minnesota and didn’t have a zoo that could house such a magnificent creature due to the severity of our winters. Naturally, I harassed my father constantly to take me to a place where I could see a real, live cheetah.…
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A Shot in The Ice
“A man who carries a cat by the tale learns something he can learn in no other way.” -Mark Twain
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The Struggle of Conflicting Wants
Ever since I was fifteen years old and attended my first “meat fabrication” class in culinary school, I’ve been a conflicted vegetarian. It wasn’t the blood, or the immense physical effort it takes to disassemble a dead cow that turned me off to meat, but rather seeing the living conditions the cows lived in before…