Fear
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Parenting Through Fear
I used to be fearless. Well, maybe not completely fearless, worries and doubts still plagued me, but overall my philosophy on life was: You can’t let your fear paralyze you. You have to move forward and choose your own adventure. And so I did. Throughout my early to mid-twenties I threw aside normal ideas of Continue reading
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Divine Unknowns
In the stillness of the morningI close my eyesand feel covered by a peacethat warms the sensitiveskin of my soulfragile and yearning for comforta warm cup of obsoletesin a room of shivering uncertainties I don’t have a cluebut I’ll stay inside the mysterythis land of unknownsit’s wild and open and free I’d rather be here 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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When You Come To The Edge
“Is it safe?” I asked, nerves coming out. I had tried to act all cool and adventurous, like I used to be, like I didn’t have a care in the world. But all of a sudden that pretense was falling down, like I imagined my body falling into a herd of Longhorns grazing below, Continue reading
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How To Remember Well- Thoughts on 9-11 & Fear Vs. Hope
Ten years ago I sat in Junior English class and heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. To be honest, I vaguely knew what the World Trade Center was. At sixteen, I wasn’t really into New York architecture. I knew about the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 