My thoughts
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Love, etc.
My Senior year of High School I bought this black shirt that had a velcro strip across the front. It came with a bag of velcro letters so I could spell anything I wanted to. The first time I wore it was on Valentine’s Day, where I proudly used it as a billboard to show Continue reading
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Would You Like To Buy A Goat?
I pull up to the nearly empty parking lot. I take a chug of coffee from my plastic Starbucks travel mug. I close my eyes for a moment, take a deep breath, and get out of my car. I walk the path up the slight incline to the doors the custodian just unlocked. It doesn’t matter Continue reading
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Tiny Lights, Tea Cups and Snowflakes
The other night I went to a Chinese Lantern Festival in Dallas. I walked through scenes that looked like something out of Alice and Wonderland or Willy Wonka. Beautiful lit-up sculptures looked ordinary until you got closer and realized they were made of out teacups or thousands of tiny vials filled with colored water. Things Continue reading
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These are the Beginning Times
I am sitting on my balcony, having a staring contest with the moon. I am sure he is winning. I am wearing shorts and a tank-top and I am not the slightest bit cold. I am here in Hurst, TX. I am living my life. I am living in the future, at times. Imagining days Continue reading
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The Beauty of Past Tense
Today yellow leaves drift downward and scatter upon the parking lot outside my window. I read a few sentences of words the God-man said once, words he still says, over and over. “Take heart, for I have overcome the world.” “Have overcome.” Not, “Will overcome.” Never has past tense felt so comforting. Never have words been Continue reading
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That Something More
And I am struck with the idea that people color life, and as long as we make loving others a priority, each day will shine. Every moment will be filled with hope overcoming doubt in our attempt to create new things to fill the voids in the atmosphere. We are always longing for something Continue reading
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The Silence Between Words
I needed this weekend more than I realized. I needed to get away, even if it was just eighty miles from home. I needed to feel the wind coming in off the grey choppy waters of Lake Whitney. I needed to walk along pale smooth rocks with my dog. I needed to feel the quick Continue reading
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Confessions of an Adventure Junkie
Last night in my dreams I wandered around some beautiful, unknown country. I spotted an old building, adorned with history and personality and lush green vines. I snapped a picture. I didn’t know anyone. I wasn’t sure where I was. I was filled with joy. I woke up with that old disappointment. That buried ache. Continue reading
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A Brief Conversation with the Sun
“Good morning, world,” she said, letting a ray of sun on her face, “Why I am here another day?” She paused, letting questions shift and arrange priorities inside of her, putting off her daily routine to try to understand how to be human. “To love,” the sun replied, realizing an answer from the world would Continue reading
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All About People
“And whose birthday is it today?” I ask smiling, as I hand Sam* one of the many pills he takes every evening. His face lights up, bright and open at the thought of friendship. “Today is Laura’s. She is one of my best, best, BEST friends! I have known her for…” He stops for a Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 