metaphors for staying

There’s a thought — or series of thoughts, really — that’s been trying to claw its way out of my brain and into the open air for a while now, but they are also the kinds of thoughts that are painful to share. Hurts to keep them in, hurts to let them out. I haven’t been able to get […]

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Begin Again

When December started, the most surprising thing of all was that it felt like it had arrived quickly. Marveling at the remarkable pace of the passage of time is pretty standard, but in a year that often felt hellish and brutal, I assumed that reaching the end wouldn’t have caught me off guard. But here […]

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