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The Serpent Without a Heart

I once met a serpent without a heart. She was quite the spectacle. Layer upon layer, I scathed away. Her … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, disease, distance, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, grief, ideas, literature, masks, nature, nihilism, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, serpent, short story, snake, snakes, sorrow, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism

Swelly

I yearn speaking in code sometimes; being so literal comes with costs. It demolishes opportunities, if you let it. Mindfulness … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, dread, emotion, existentialism, fear, feelings, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, sorrow, transcendentalism

Together

How is one supposed to feel when they’ve lost someone they’ve never met? Someone who, years later, would’ve been the … More

anxiety, blog, dark, death, depression, emotion, feelings, flyhigh, grief, health, heaven, ideas, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, sorrow, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism, wind

Our Own Path

Not unlike the wind, you can never control me. I’ve built my life this way for a reason. If your … More

advice, blog, emotion, feelings, subjectivity, the office, therapy, wind

Hi, Reality. Have We Met?

Maybe we, as humans, tend to burn bridges so that we have something to do later in life: build them … More

advice, blog, emotion, feelings, grief, health, ideas, psychology, science, thoughts

The Choice

Times are strange right now. Right? I had a choice recently; just within the past few days. After a failed … More

anxiety, blog, choices, distance, emotion, fear, feelings, grief, ideas, self discovery, sorrow, therapy, thoughts

The Circulant

Share your story with all of us We are all dying ..to hear it The blowback is simple; and elegant; … More

anxiety, blog, dark, disease, distance, emotion, feelings, ideas, literature, philosophy, poems, poetry, psychology, religion, snakes, social, stoicism, subjectivity, therapy, thoughts, transcendentalism

our COVID-19 conundrum

It matters now. What we say and what we do. For our kids are watching us; actually watching us. For … More

advice, blog, COVID, disease, distance, emotion, fear, feelings, health, mask, masks, pandemic, political, science, social, subjectivity, therapy

A Man’s Best Friend

The sight is the night. For the light is not right. I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again. … More

anxiety, blog, dark, depression, emotion, feelings, grief, literature, nature, philosophy, poems, poetry, religion, self discovery

The selfish duckling

Splash… He said, He never did. He never did anything. Apathy ran his life. He was the duck that never … More

anxiety, apathy, blog, dark, depression, dread, emotion, fear, feelings, ideas, literature, poems, poetry, social anxiety, sorrow, thoughts

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