Tag: life
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The proof
Dear One, is in the doing. There’s lots to be said for research, and reading what others have done. There’s also being strategic, and plotting and defining large structures and entire campaigns before doing any of the well, actual doing. Remember: experiments work. As does changing course mid-stream based on data, experience and feedback, once…
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It was the mention
of aftercare practices that finally does my head in. Practices so tender and even heartwrenching, that I’d just experienced for the first time, lapping them up unashamedly, only to fall back to earth hard and fast; unsteady, disorientated, sad. These were not our special things, contrary to what my naive, trusting heart had been telling…
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Do you
have a list? Of the things you like, love and adore. And also of the things that aren’t things. List making can be cathartic, it can also be revealing and scary. It does bring a certain order to the world, though. For there’s profound beauty in naming stuff well. So today, spend a little time…
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The only thing
wrong with that dress is that it’s not crumpled into a pile next to my bed. Every woman glows up beautifully under the keen eye of an eager admirer. And in that lies the rub, for not every admirer is upstanding and not every glorious woman’s heart has been sufficiently fed in her lifetime. So…
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She is
the gun at a knife fight. Japanese whiskey, on the rocks, with slices of ginger and lime. Your secret anime hidden in a history book, Joan Jet and Joy Division, colliding. Soft doe eyes, wearing a black leather harness and stiletto fuck-off boots. She’s gentle spring rain, on a field near Chernobyl. She is the…
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I found
it, there this morning: my is-ness. It was there, in the quiet so loud, it thrummed my ears. It was there, in the air, so thick and lush, it stuck in my throat. It was there, in the happy wiggle butss of my dogs, the satisfying crunch of my shoes on the stoned ground. It…
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So you
surprised me today, and in a very good way. And I realised that this very pattern is likely to repeat itself for as long as we both shall live. Your magic unlikely to dim, your tender heart pure. And again I stand in awe of the wonder of you. ~Lu
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You gave me
your heart to love, and to protect. My constant companion, the one I clung to above all others. You licked my tears, we walked, we ran, we snuggled, we snoozed. And I always knew that you were the one… The chances of soulmates being slim. I felt awe and wonder in your presence, a wise,…
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Embrace
the beauty in the mundane, while the everyday drudge may feel overwhelming sometimes, even often. Go within and find the power to step back, to zoom out, to be. Pattern brings power and what you do consistently makes change. The dripping tap eventually cracks the basin. It is simply a matter of time, of pushing…
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A friend
once told me a story, folklore. Of a woman who was turned into a donkey, because she forgot to wear earrings. At first I giggled, for donkeys are cute, and who wouldn’t enjoy a life of leisure. and then I recalled that donkeys were in fact the workhorse of the day and often mistreated. And…