we laid on the golf course stargazing because I saw it in a movie once and they looked happy and not talking was the easiest way to pretend everything was okay . you reached for my hand and I let you because no one was around to see except the stars who’ve witnessed a million […]
some days I am a champion . the world sits at my feet begging to be conquered by my unbreakable spirit and unstoppable drive . and that is okay because I am made of bones so durable that they can withstand battle . some days I am bold . the world is my oyster waiting
it started with the garden where life was cherished and everything was pure but it is now covered in soda cans, cigarette butts, and the lingering stench of rotten eggs . a grave site holding wishes, past loves, years unremembered, unfulfilled futures where now plastic forms fossils and sewage forms roots . a spoiled wasteland
you are autumn colors with the spring bloom summer joy with the winter beauty you move mountains and settle storms, as strong as an earthquake and as gentle as a rose you change like the phases of the moon but shine when I look for you on cloudy days you are a vacation on the
Music has a way of bringing people together, changing your mood, and making you feel like you’re in a room full of friends when you’re alone. There is a certain science behind the way music is constructed, and I’m not going to pretend to know what it is, but I know that it is beautiful.
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In honor of my grandfather’s funeral today, this is the letter I wrote and read at the service. As a child, your home was a magical place. “Going to Papa’s” meant going on an adventure. It was a place of climbing on tractors, hide and seek in the shed, and four-wheeling in the woods. Even
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Greed – “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more” (Ephesians 4: 19) “Let’s play war,” I suggested knowing Camden loved a good card game,
a broken black stiletto j cole blaring to an empty crowd one fur coat, two broken mirrors, and forty-seven bottle caps whispers of the best friends who are no longer best friends a shot-ski seeking the lips of lonely teenagers turtle-murdering mcdonald’s straws inappropriate doodles lining the side jamb of the bedroom
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lying on the breathing ground I take in cricket’s chirping sounds carried on the summer winds and grasses graze my ticklish skin sinking down into the earth our syncing hearts thrust back and forth becoming one I breathe in deep you take my breath and then release I gaze upon the endless sky alone in
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The idea of a diet has always scared me. When my roommate first told me about the paleo diet eleven months ago, I never thought it would be something I would participate in. It took too many of my favorite foods away, I thought. It was too hard! Well, here I am after my freshman
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