Life
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Enough For Today
Moments of clarity come, falling into my heart like snow, covering the dust and dirt, the anxiety and confusion, creating a new landscape of white. I am thankful. Deep down in my bones. My boot-covered feet crunch as I walk across our lawn to the mailbox, making new footprints in the white powder. I inhale Continue reading
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We Walk On
I have an announcement to make: everybody feels like they are faking it. We are all just along for the ride, and really have no clue what we are doing or where we are going. Even moments of confidence and accomplishment feel so short-lived. Life comes at you the older you get, and parenthood adds Continue reading
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Here’s To The Fools Who Dream
Remember when you were 19 and the whole world was yours? It was so open and astounding and you knew you could conquer it. You were convinced your life had deep meaning and purpose. You knew it was your destiny to change the world. So you took risks. You went out on a limb. You Continue reading
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Doors
they say just walk right through when it’s open but sometimes the noise is too loud to find your footing I still dream of that perfect place where the windows are always open and the outside and inside are one so there are no dark corners walls are safe and secure and they keep us yearning even when Continue reading
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Translating the Wind
somewhere between where I was and where I am going, I reside abandoning all other options careless to the chaos of choice the noise ceases and I am still Oh restless heart, make peace with yourself a decade ago I wandered from city to small town overwhelmed by the meaning in every place, person, and moment every Continue reading
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Triggers
here’s what triggers me: a soft feeling beneath a cynical view that today matters that there is worth in unexpected moments that greener grass is here, now I want to take a breath and mean it like when time stopped and every inhale and exhale meant bringing a child into the world a labor of Continue reading
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Fear Not The Passing Of Time (Live Forever)
Here we are again. A blank calendar. A twinge of hope. We count the previous hardships. “Things will be better this year,” We say, “They have to be.” One year folds into the next, creases in a paper that blows away at the slightest wind. For a moment, we stand still and see the rate Continue reading
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The Slow Days are the Hardest
Sometimes it’s the slow days that are the hardest When we go go go we aren’t forced to face ourselves All the raging inside becomes mute in the busy When we’re moving forward We can look out the window at the landscape Even if it’s stark The motion of the road Stirs our imaginations A Continue reading
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Life, Death & Easter Baskets
I made an Easter basket for the first time today. I wandered the aisles in the store and let my daughter choose between a bunny and a duck. I never did Easter baskets growing up, or egg hunts. It wasn’t the “Christian” thing. While I was throwing together an awkward last-minute basket for my baby, Continue reading
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The Three Births of Aurelia Claire
It’s close to four in the morning and I am awakened by the sound of my daughter crying. I slowly emerge out of a sleepy haze, rolling over to get out of bed. I pick my baby up out of her bassinet and try to comfort her. Her cry is loud now, reverberating across a silent Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 