by Cindy Riach
The other day, for whatever reason, I started thinking about the band Urban Zakapa. I hadn’t thought about…
A short story.
The doors of the elevator closed.
Hi Ma,
I’ve tried writing a letter to you many times but have always run out of words. Maybe…
Before there was Tinder, there was a board game called “Mystery Date” that was around when I was a kid. I only saw it on TV commercials…
This video summarizes most beautifully the critical aspects of what growing food is all about. It’s a 25-minute video, a beautiful, well explained summary of what is wrong with the world of farming today and what it takes to be a…
Pick up the phone.
(Abhay texts Kritika after trying 10–12 times)
Kritika slept early after being furious at Abhay. Abhay keeps his phone aside and sits in the balcony staring at the stars. He was so happy that he couldn’t put…
Today I’ll search my inner mind,and gather memories that I find.And all of…
Like the golden veinsIn a broken vase you shineKintsugi, sweetheart
When dog is your co-pilot, sometimes the little things leave a big impact…
January 13, 2018
In the beginning stages of a relationship there are things we do to be accommodating or…
EXPAND, A Devotional
by Elder Pam Porter
“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.” Psalms 42:1 NKJV
So today has been a funny one, actually this weekend and the week before have all had some amazing highs but then…
Dear one, you are a rock,Hard and stable, Situated at the bottom of a waterfall. I am a river, Swift and searching, Falling…
Big Data for Big Dating… trovare l’amore al tempo dei dati
Recentemente Meetic, la famosa app di incontri fondata da Marc Simoncini con sede a Boulogne-Billancourt in Francia, ha fatto conoscere alcuni dei suoi dati. Da quanto emerso il sito sta nel momento di picco dell’anno. Il Peak moment, o picco di utilizzo, è la…
Today I woke up after being in a dream state for pretty long.
Condition: the circumstances or factors affecting the…
I was rummaging for somethingSuddenly, I felt his body take me from behindI love surprisesStartled, I let myself feel himHis smell, his energy, his…
Science makes us understand that the earth in which we live in is not static, but is a sphere that is constantly on the move, albeit subtly. If it were static, we would all be on the same plane, and in the…
Have you ever wondered what sound a heart makes…
As a beam of sunlight made its way through the entangled branches of trees in the park one winter afternoon and fell onto my palm, I realized it was the first time in many days when I felt the warmth in this cold city. I had laid down with my arms…
My liquids and gifts bore no meaning for you. You barely touched them today.I did…
Apa sih komitmen itu? Bisa dibilang komitmen itu semacam prinsip atau keteguhan hati. Kalau dari KBBI, “Komitmen adalah suatu janji pada diri…
“Me, a princess!! Shut, up!” (Mia, The Princess Diaries)
А давай закроем глаза и представим, что все то, о чем мы мечтали, сидя на кухне долгими, холодными, снежными, зимними вечерами, с кружкой сладкого чая в руках, уже стало правдой. Что мы не побоялись и уехали из родного городка, сначала в город побольше, а потом и вовсе сменили континент. Нам пришлось бросить…
Good morning, (I know your taste)
There’s something to be said about the ability to speak, without speaking. I mean this in all that beautiful ways it can…
My life is worn out. What more can I do? Well, maybe I could pretend something better than what I know to be true. I know. That’s too simple. So, what if the world is quarrelling…
Out of everything I’ve written in my quick, clumsy, deep-thinking life this is probably the most difficult to spit out. Not because I’m hungover as I usually am when I decide to write so that the horrors don’t set in and make me cheese grate my corneas. But because I’m exceptionally distracted by…
Stop. Stay away from me.Now come close.You are near to me;now back off.Come again,warm to me,now cold,where is your heart?I am…
Letter to current tenant:
You can’t live rent free here anymore.
I want to write from the heart,
Say all the right words,
Perfect is a myth,
Have you swooning right from the start,
So I stayed up all night,
Thinking about ways to make my words resonate,
My apologies.
If you’re here for one of my usual posts, this isn’t it, and you can stop reading. This isn’t going to be a “good” post and is not “recommended reading”.
In November 2003, I flew to Nepal alone and climbed the Himalayas. It was my first trip overseas alone and I was taking a huge gamble on myself. My four children at that time were 19, 18, 12 and 10. I was leaving the youngest ones with their Dad while the eldest looked after themselves.
💞
Love:
Love more;
You can sink lower than all the bottoms you hit.
The best will come and go.
I’m glad we can be miserable together.
I was telling the story of how my husband and son both have temps of 102. And how it was perfectly fine that even though I’m sick too, I didn’t have an ego fit that neither one of them inquired about me at any point in my ministering. I love tangibles, and this seemed big growth. But a dear friend said, “I…
Frey, saudara lelaki Freya, walaupun punya segalanya dan disukai dewa-dewa, merasa ada yang kurang dalam hidupnya. Dan ia tak tahu apa itu.
Padahal ia tinggal di Alfheim, tak ada tempat seindah Alfheim. Dia punya pedang yang bisa bertempur sendiri. Dia memiliki kapal terbesar…
He allows himself to shed the occasional tear,For the heart doesn’t forget even if the mind wants to.
We see the world how we feel. At that moment.
Our emotions paint the scene.
We remember. Our emotions. The rest are structures made of cardboard.
Fiction, extract Tree Bird Fish Bell
Universes shudder when the smallest order is breached. The biggest changes come in…
A place far away from reality, with our paths crossingMaybe it exists; But the distant memories…Everyday my life revolves around you…
See full article…
Do I have the rightTo ask you to leaveEverything and runTo me?
Happiness, it’s all we ever want. It’s seeing the beauty in small things, it’s the loss of big…
Para cada receita de abobrinha à milanesa, há um coração prestes a ser marinado. Essa mania de escrever um rosto quando ele se vai. É engraçado quando você olha para o objeto amado e subitamente sabe que ele não está mais ali…
We used to be close, you used to tell me how much I meant to you, why you liked me, and told me how excited you were just to kiss me. We used to watch a movie together every week, talk about it, and then talk until we went to sleep. You used to end every…
“You’re cold and hard to please. I ask and you’re like, ‘It’s not bad’. Never satisfied, golosa.”
“I am curious…are you emotional? It’s so hard to tell.”
Direct quotes from two different people in the past week. Neither meant offense…
I learned of this story some time ago, how a certain young man almost took the easy way out. He had been laid off from his previous job, and had done everything he could to find another one.
The romance genre in Indian films is mostly dominated by two storylines — A man and woman…
Desire is like a desease. It permeates through all your senses and twists your perception of everything. With desire comes attachment, possession and ego: their partners in crime.
“Let’s break up”
She regretted it the second she said it. Even though she tried hard, tears came down in a rush. Unfortunately, she couldn’t take those words back; not now, not ever.
Last semester I was laying down in my bed, and I saw a creature climbing on the wall, and it looked at me while it was climbing. The creature…
She found herself caressed by moonshine on a perfectly warm and breezy shore. She drew strength, vitality and calm from the moon, and passionately drowned herself in the luminescence that it unleashed in the silence of the night. The wind blew in, and brought with it the sweet smell of the ocean…
Love isn’t just the color red or a special meal
If there is one thing I know and have learned. It’s that you got to love you! If you can’t love you it’s like a knife in…
I can express my secrets;And my feelings.Just haven’t realized
—Until now.
The more value I provideBy being myself The greater I become;brighter the sun shine;smaller the fear of being alone.
Ever wondered about life without all those important people. Your parents, your siblings, your teacher, your grandparents and relatives and friends and so much more. Ever got stuck in something that only required a little change of perspective. Ever got helped by a simple point that someone else had to…
So it just passed few days since the last time I've heard your voice. Since the last time I've saw your smile. I just noticed that I was just surviving, not living. I got used to have that routine, go to work, finish work, go back home and stay in silence until the next day. I got used to be someone who…
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. – 2 Corinthians 9:8
And therein lies the problem with the Entrainment of today: when presented with someone, whether as a gifted tool from God, Prophet, Illumination and more…
Our good friend Anca Pandrea discovered she has an…
Monster
I was a very emotional man. I used to care a lot,love a lot. I've managed to make emotional connection with everyone I met. All of a sudden My life has changed completely. After My Degree as everyone does, I go in-search of job to Bengaluru. That city changed me in lot of my character. Suddenly I started to feel like…
Accepting Distance with Grace
It took months to let go
Weeks of insecurity
Days of immobility
Hours of second guessing
Minutes of self doubt
From the Diary of Ann Margaret
Oh that I could touch you
Oh that you would want to be alone togetherOh that you would say do as you wish with meOh…
it pains me to know
that maybe forever
was never meant
to stay that long
tell me
tell me they were wrong
love me
To My Dear Female Ancestors,
My point of afflictionWith the beautiful curse of consciousnessIs its failure to capture, to retrieve, to reminisceMoments fleeted by.
One day when you’re dieing who will you remember..
one day when all has ended, who will give you life
One day when all have left you, who will you long for
whose touch will you await
Andre Gamboa
A tribute to the game that gave me everything.
I remember the summer going into my junior year of high school I was done. My mind was made up not to play anymore after having a — in my opinion — disastrous sophomore season. Although I told nobody about my decision to stop playing, in my…
ख़ुद से कैसे प्यार करूँ?? जब ख़ुदीं ही तुम हो
Wow, beautiful writing and illustrations, Alexandra!
Sadly, I admit, though, silence doesn’t come naturally to me in the presence of others. I do enjoy silence when alone-and appreciate its calming effect regularly. :)
Last breath.
A long life.. a life of experiences. A life filled with love from family, friends and his only wife. Now laying in bed taking the last breaths.. surrounded by family, friends and the one and only wife. With so much love in the room praying and comforting him through his last breaths with tears in everyone’s eyes…
I know, it’s been a long time since we last spoke. To be exact, it’s been about eleven years since our last talk.
A vision near the piercing light
Broken silence
Although being Latin-American and came from a coffee country, these three years living in Panama have given me the opportunity to learn how to start loving real coffee. My level of ignorance was such that today I regret not having being interested in coffee earlier in my life, but…
you can tuck all my love letters
into the folds of your soul
and wait
and wait for the ink
to imprint onto
the walls of
your heart
Does Being Rich Bring Happiness?
You don’t need money to make you happy, instead you need great people around you who love and support you, because those people will be there for you when all hell breaks lose.
I was reading this article about happiness. What really is it? Well, it is a state of…
The air turned blue in a dull gust, all linesyellow between the panes. The table satalone, my fingers broke like resin. Rindand glass and paragraph lay rat-a-tatlike laughs before you. You blew in, almostsummer in an almost world, your hair strainedto reach its own imagination…
Feelings are very much reciprocal, we love so deep we lose ourselves in the process, we are so selfless we become hopeless, we love in hopes to be loved, we trust with faith to be trusted in return, yet we get treated as crap and still remain. The problem begins with us who give excuses for those who treat us as pieces of furniture, who get dusted…
There isn’t a day I don’t think about my little girl Ella and the endless questions of ‘what ifs’. I’m a mother to an Angel…its…
Two years ago to this day, he walked out on me and the kids. No warning, we had no big fight. He couldn’t grow up, mature and be a responsible family man. I was sad, broken-hearted and felt abandoned. I sobbed for my kids because all of the future dreams of family outings and adventures I had visualized in…
As I lay here next to my best friend while she takes a nap I remember why it’s so important to have friends like her in each of our lives. With every struggle I’ve had to go through this year she has been there one hundred percent of the…
We swallow carefully and hide our mouthsfrom each other and from the teeming facts: we are anointing by default. But south of here our stomping grounds ran up a tractof mountain grass. We birded, and we birthedtwin truths, or what in the half-light felt liketwo truths: a stream and its…
Fumes, smoke, wired glass, shiny dust, ashes, mist… the beauty in the broken mess…isn’t it beautiful, isn’t it just mind numbing and calm…it’s like a mini shock effect you know… everything happens so fast in life that we don’t get a chance to see it with its true beauty… time has a way with deceiving…
We choose… we choose to keep a distance, we choose who we take a risk with… we choose where and how to put the walls up and when and where to break these walls. Yet we blame others for our choices. I just think it’s don’t fair to the other person you know… like you knew he was a jerk, or she was a cheater, or how…
There was a splendor: anarchic mountain
and teeth spiking themselves out like raw trees;
sweet bullets, itchy birds, we were a sin,
our rancor was a bald cacophony.
Being young, Being married.
As many people dwell on us that are married young they like to put their past stories on us even when we didn’t ask for your opinion. Many say “why don’t you live your life, why do you wanna be tied down?” Like are we supposed to just leave the person we are with just because you and jimmy broke…
There will be and they better be times when you don’t feel like not being what you are. Existence as a concept feels tedious…
I thoroughly enjoyed the pop culture references and humor you interlaced throughout your writing! Hopefully some ghosts will be brought back to life from this post!
Breath and enjoy every particle of air. Sofie. Every moment.
Home is.
Where you taste freedom.
A Matryoshka Doll Set is a Russian nested wooden doll set, one doll within another and another and another. It can…
I lie suspended in a fog acrossthe Thames, avoiding waking up. A fleetof ghosts studs the air with song. And the drossof Sunday makes its swollen barge, discreetlaquer of sewage. She is there, among the sodden boxes, folded into curvesby glacial gravity. Her hair a sun…
Hide-and-Seek
How good it would have felt
To have someone play
hide-and-seek with.
I say, “I’d hide my heart”
and you: “I’d be there to seek it.”
Or I just thought you did.
😭😭 emoshuna sturvs
Today’s self-empowering communication to positively affect yourself:
Repeat with me: I AM SUCCESS EVERY MOMENT!
“I am determined to walk away from all those pessimistic thinkers, negative behaving…
I pick up these broken pieces, and try to make them into something beautiful. Something meaningful.
Random thoughts of the first night in limbo.
We are light, despite the cold and despitethe rough scrape of salt underfoot. We atelike horses, laughing, breading, soaking, fightover spilled oil. Glow of an iratesun, arousal in flux, a 3-d poolupended, drop, finger-drag. Grin at meand shake your shivers out. We are the foolsthey…
Hey, I’m Frank
I’m a 21 year old queer man currently living in Los Angeles and this is my blog. Yes, my personal little diary if I must.
I was born in July, yes cancer (best sign ever💁🏽♂️)
I’m a Communication Major, former nurse, former Teacher Aid, and currently a pot…
I closed my eyes and the insanity began
I fell white for you
I barely knew your name
And yet its all I hear every night, morning, twilight
I’m self-aware enough to know how the title of this blog appears on the surface. I know that it reads as a blog designed for toxic macho, PUA (pick-up artist), meninist bullshit full of cringe-worth diatribes. I know. I know. But it’s…
She’s to be made a fool of…
She’s blind, gullible, and green
You uttered the words
You caressed, stroked and touched
You saw a crack and kicked the door wide open..
Your rebukes are like spears,
Piercing through my soul,
Here comes my another mistake, a false move to hurt you by words, I’m sorry if I cared too much and come to the point that those words dig in to your heart and create a hole that became a pathway of your thoughts. I’m sorry because you are too important to me, I know my boundaries believe me, I’m sorry if I can’t stop caring about you, I’m sorry if I…
They smattered yellow chairs around to makethis thin thought seem like new: a bright new brewof different croissants, marbled scones, fakeEames. We were here, twenty nine I. I knewyour few years more would be enough to driveyou to your wedding while I spun Paris, my silk not strong…
The Purpose
It asks, why have I been here!For I have been learning hardPassing tests, proving throughout,That I belong here..But I’m still unsolved.Surviving over-occupiedWith thoughts, endlessStorms of Interrogations with selfQuestioning my being, my purpose here.Indeed there is some.…May be the way is not…
