I find a certain peace in watering my plants. Early in the morning, when the hummingbirds spin round, before the heat of the day sucks the moisture from my body. I prefer sturdy plants that don’t require a great deal of water, so I don’t stress about killing them. I may not have the greenest […]
more I water and care for my garden, the more it produces, the Read More »
When I first started dating my master, he was with Someone Else. I know, this isn’t your typical fairy tale, but it’s mine. I hope you listen, because it’s difficult to make this short. Anyway. Let me tell you about her. Someone- in every typical, measurable societal standard- more “valuable” to him than myself. Someone
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ask your partner what they would do if you fell in love with someone else on that first date, lying on the grass in the park
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“Meet me in the boiler room.” The text comes through, per expectation, in the evening. Some nights she receives it. Sometimes she does not. She never knows, nor is it her place to know. It is His. She is thankful for the time He allows her. Her eyes sparkle, true emerald glint, when the text
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I saw a piece about someone who said something nice— and another someone responded with unkind words, and this made yet another person upset. “(S)he just said something nice. Can’t you just accept that and move on?” After all, they have a point. Being nice is…nice. I wish society could be nicer. Jimmy Stewart once
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An open letter to the person who says romance is dead,
Carry on, dear soul.
Romance may be dead for you.
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“It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.” — Every Day by David Levithan Falling in love is both simple and mysterious. But it is, when it comes down to it, quite easy to actually…do. Compared with
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I’ll say it here: Trust is overrated. It’s wonderful when it genuinely blossoms from a deep connection. A solidly built trust helps to reassure one that you are making the right decision with any given person with whom that trust is formed. Yet at the end of the day, the only person in whom you
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“Until it feels easy.” My kitten brain sighs, “Until WHAT feels easy?”** It’s nice to say, “Being single is fun and easy!”— and certainly I do think being single is underrated. …but it isn’t always easy. The 24/7, confident, hair whipping woman in the power suit, breastfeeding whilst commanding a conference call via her
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“It doesn’t count if it’s a girl.” The words ran through her mind like the silk sheets on her skin. On her fifteenth birthday, she’d snuck a bottle of rum from her parent’s alcohol cabinet. Of course her parents left the cabinet in easy reach. At barbecues, they even allowed her to add a
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