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It’s been a long day. I’ve been telling myself we’ll make it to bedtime with everyone’s sanity and hearts intact. I’ve been telling myself we’re doing great and it’s ok to be a little tuckered out. I’ve been telling myself I’m just a little tense with the old nerves, it’s been a long day, you…
other thinkings…
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But this
Read more: But thisI think gym classes in middle school and high school need to be more reality based. Instead of teaching proper technique for push ups, gym classes should teach kids how to survive real-life scenarios. Train a thirteen year old how to carry a bag of groceries and a squirming toddler in one hand while unlocking the front door with the other. Teach a tenth grader…
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If not with you
Read more: If not with youI didn’t want to put Christmas up this year. At the very most, maybe the little tree we have on the side buffet in the dining room. But I thought of my son and how much he is like his daddy. And his daddy loved Christmas. So here we are.
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carry this
Read more: carry thisI am here to see if there is a way words can restore purpose. If there is a way that the electric ricocheting of shrapnel can slow. If there is a way the deadening pressure can lift. My love, my honeybear, has died. My best friend, my person, our homemaker and caretaker, our number one, my cheerleader and bench warmer, my rejoicer and celebrater, gone.…
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since the last time
Read more: since the last timeI tested positive, and felt it in every bone of my body, every muscle that ached and said, “No more,” every breath that caught and tightened my throat. Then Baby, her eyes weepy and her little chest constraining against my hands. Then Mister, our caretaker, the captain of this ship that seems to be sinking. But Boy, he outlasted us all. He played and played…
Do justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly.
scribbling along since 2013
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a scribble of jo 