My thoughts
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3 Things You Must Know About Marriage
I’ve been seeing an overwhelming amount of articles on Facebook with titles like these: 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Married 10 Things To Look For in A Mate 4 Things That Led To My Divorce They are usually posted by multiple people, adjacent to comments such as: “EVERYONE needs to read this Continue reading
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Tight-Rope Walking Across Manhatten
Change. I used to be so in love with it. I still am, but it’s more of a complex, love-hate relationship. Now, it brings worry that seems less easy to brush off, it clings to me causing occasional sleeplessness and intense feelings of anxiety. Change comes dressed in a variety of ways lately, in the Continue reading
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You’re My Adventure
Two weeks ago I married the love of my life. As I walked down the hill to a beach on a lake where my friends and family waited, and saw my handsome, grinning groom, I felt like I must be in a dream or the happy climax of a really great movie. It was such Continue reading
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I Know You.
I know you. You think you are the only one who wakes up from a disturbing dream, and sinks back into the feeling that you don’t really want to be awake today. You feel crazy when you start crying when fresh coffee cascades all over the counter. There is some kind of leak in your Continue reading
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A Dozen Things I Like at 28
I recently turned 28. I was going to write this serious, reflective post, but there is too much going on in my life right now to scratch the surface of my deep emotional currents. So instead I made this list of things I find myself liking more as I get older. Enjoy the random break Continue reading
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What to do When the World Falls Apart
1. Turn off the news and go outside. Get lost in the woods. Or even better, your lover’s arms. 2. Be honest with yourself. If you hate the world right now, say so. Let the cynicism rise out of you, your words creating a spiritual detox until you’re drained. 3. When you are Continue reading
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Crossing The Sea
The page feels extra blank today, and I think maybe I have nothing to say. But that is a lie, because the thoughts don’t stop rolling. I try to live in the present, but my mind takes me far in the future. To the smell of salt on skin, and tiny hands pressed into Continue reading
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Rise Like the Sun
It’s a strange world. Trying to figure out how to be human in only one life time. We suffer until we reach the split where we have to decide if we want to continue to live or not. Whether the suffering is widely known, or completely internally hidden, whether deemed “small” or “enormous” we must all reach Continue reading
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The War On Hate Control (The Only Way I Know)
We see children killing children, and the grip of handcuffs tighten until our hands turn blue cutting off circulation, till nothing new can be made. This is not a new era, this is not the end. This is the history of humanity. Hate and loneliness and revenge and “justice” and a crazy, throbbing lust for Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 