Waiting rooms. No one wants to be there. Strangers are collectively placed in the same holding cell waiting to be seen. To be heard. To be diagnosed. To get news. The avoidance of showing up in this place can be seen hours earlier with intense google searches. Phone calls made to friends asking their opinion […]
Money is currency. It’s actually paper, therefore, it has the ability to be burned up. You can lose its value when you don’t discern the purpose and power it is intended to have. I love how one of my past college instructors puts it. “When you don’t know the value of something or a person
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Survivors are a club all to themselves. They usually spot one another or naturally gravitate to each other. Growing up in a family that doesn’t rescue you has it’s benefits. It’s called the school of hard knocks a lot of times. What’s so cruel about not being insulated? Being tough instead of being ‘princessed’ to
Our eyes met at the stop light. Her beautiful brown face and pink bow that was bigger than her. She struck me with her happiness. It made me take an inventory of my own. Mom looked exhausted as she stared at the light waiting for it to change. The little brown faced girl, not so
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It all started when she was 6. When she did well she was applauded. Applause is harmless enough. It’s encouraging when you have done well, however, not so great if the applause means acceptance. No applause. no acceptance. Acceptance meant approval and since she didn’t have a strong sense of identity she needed to be accepted.
