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Let Your Light Shine: The Beauty of Character Flaws
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson Sometimes, a memory…
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I’d Love It If We Made It.
“And we can find out the informationAccess all the applicationsThat are hardening positions based on miscommunicationOh, f*ck your feelingsTruth is only hearsayWe’re just left to decayModernity has failed us … And I’d love it if we made it.” – The 1975 It’s a running joke among me and those close to me that one of…
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#WCW & the Importance of Female Friendship.
I’d like to invite you to imagine a scenario in which two women meet. Now tell me, what happens next? Do they smile meekly and introduce themselves? Do they size one another enough up for weaknesses, deciding how to best neutralize the other as a threat? Do they identify how attractive the other is (and…
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A Weekend in the Irish Otherworld
Nothing tugs at my heartstrings like mythology, and throughout the process of writing #theCollapse, I’ve discovered a bit of a passion for lesser known pantheons. I’m equally as prone to disappearing into a black hole of Wikipedia pages as I am to vanish into a well-written fantasy or historical fiction set against these beliefs, which…
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Here, there be Monsters.
As early as the first century, depictions of strange creatures began creeping in from the edges of our maps, showing territories of unexplored dangers. By the 1500s, one might find HC SVNT DRACONES on the dark corners of our globe. Later still, large swaths of wilderness bore only one warning: Here, there be Monsters. For…
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Israel & Missed Opportunities
Over the holiday, I’ve been reading Long Story Short: The Bible in Six Simple Movements by Joshua McNall. It’s a very enlightening little read for anyone who enjoys the Bible, reading, or storytelling, and I gifted it to my mom and my friend because I enjoyed it so much. As I was reading through the…
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“Don’t dream it, be it.”
There’s something appealing about starting over. So much so, that we have built it into our collective consciousness–we turn over new leaves, we get fresh starts, we make New Year’s Resolutions. History has the human race celebrating the ensuing New Year as early as 2000 BC (although back then, the calendar started in March). Our…
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“Hallelujah”
“Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold, and it’s a broken, hallelujah.” One day, I will sit down and dissect the entirety of the work that is Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Today, however, I only have a few minutes while I wait for my dogs to be ready at the groomers. This post is…
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On taking yourself seriously.
“Power is perceived. No one has it; you just say you have it and other people will believe you.” The Collapse series is a complete passion project for me, an opportunity for me to learn and explore the topics that already fascinated me. When I started, I vowed to try to represent different belief systems…
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Work in Progress
“Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend! Come inside, come inside.” For those of you who’ve known me over the years, it should come as no surprise that writing is a passion of mine. Numerous blogs have come and gone (this one, for example, used to…
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