Your eyes lock. There is a sudden heat and in that moment, your heart giddily leaps. Your cheeks redden and you blush with excitement, panic and shame. You are committed and don’t want to feel this way and have absolutely…
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Pablo Picasso once said “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” You have to break out of one pattern to discover another. Challenge the rules. Most rules aren’t written down in a manual somewhere, they are imprinted…
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June 13, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
“This is so hideous, it’s almost beautiful!” said my partner, cocking his head and stepping back to get a different perspective on the piece of art we had been studying for about ten minutes now. The longer we looked at…
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September 24, 2014 Crisis Support
“He’s being cremated,” barked my mother. My father, the object of our discussion, sat by in his chair and quietly looked at me and shrugged. There was something in his eyes, his stare, that made me question the fierce decision…
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January 7, 2014 Crisis Support
Paralyzed by fear. Alone. Frozen on the precipice and unable to step ahead into the unknown and yet sensing the symbolic sword at your back, edging you ever so concretely forward. She was the pride of her mom and dad…
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