Category: Personal Reflection
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The After Tears
The storm has rolled out, an ordinary calm carries in on its coattails. All looks right in the world until a subtle rustle and plink-plopping of the after tears reveal the traumatic remnants of the deluge. Rain was forecasted to continue in an hour or so. A storm had just rolled through and at the…
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Remembering the Gift of Morning
Each awakening, one deep inhale is filling my body with a newness, a readiness, a gift of freshness to welcome the new day. No lugging of worries or doubt, hanging over from turbulent slumber. Mysteriously whisked away placed into a releasing exhale in molecules fading into the heavens. Your mind influences your waking body’s perception…
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Aches and Pains of Pickleball
Oh, I am sooooooooo sore this morning. No one told me that playing pickleball at a 3 hour “social” would make me hurt all over the next morning. The arches of my feet, my calf muscles, my right hip, my abs, my right tricep and shoulder all simper in pain as I move them today.…
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Scared to be the Mature Me???
When we makeup, oatmeal dabbing over purple under-eye circles obliterating the tiredness from night, feathering fair powder over chin and cheeks peachy erasing of wrinkles and crinkles, midnight wanding extending, thickening wispy, just being eye-protecting lashes mauve lipsticking the rounded curves popping color unto a neutral canvas. Why do we makeup, why are we scared…
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To Rest or Not?
My first day of Spring Break should have excitement quivering inside me. However, I feel drained, tired and just plain beat. I have no big plans for this week. The only initial thoughts were to clean, organize, exercise daily and meet up with friends a few times. Honestly, right now that seems like too much.…
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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
I borrowed this prompt from wahooliteracyteacher at https://wahooliteracyteacher.wordpress.com/2023/03/26/yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-sol23/. The post there was much lighter. I did not expect these words to flow out of me but they did. It was a way for me to process some of what I have been feeling. Yesterday I felt fear again at the news of another school shooting.…
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Really, it’s a gift?
My entire life I have been teased by my family for being so sensitive and emotional. I cry often, not just when I am sad or upset. Reading birthday cards- funny ones or heartfelt ones- tears flow. Seeing a commercial on TV, especially Hallmark ones, makes me tear up. Watching any final sports championship game,…
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