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July 14, 2025

holding on

July 14, 2025/ Kathy
holding on

it’s so much easier to be broken
than to sit around waiting and waiting and waiting

to break 

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July 14, 2025/ Kathy/ Comment
body, functioning, poetry
Kathy
May 27, 2025

Hemispheres

May 27, 2025/ Guest Writer
Hemispheres

On one side of my heart, a deep well of love, admiration, awe, and gratitude for every being that gets to exist. How is it that anyone gets to make it out into the world alive? What an absolute miracle each life is. And then there is the other side of my heart - an ever-tunneling density of love packed into a black hole that will never be fully received.

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May 27, 2025/ Guest Writer/ 1 Comment
beauty, community, coping
Guest Writer
May 05, 2025

Six years

May 05, 2025/ Nori
Six years

It was as though I was a moon slowly being pulled from an outer orbit to an inner orbit of the planet of grief. A flood of tears that began slowly, with a trickle, then a stream, and finally the deluge. A predictable order, each phase easing me forwards. 

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anniversaries, coping, time
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April 20, 2025

The quiet room in my heart

April 20, 2025/ Jo-Anne
The quiet room in my heart

I know, too, that moving on is not a failure, that healing is no betrayal. This life, this breath is me honoring something sacred.

 And you, my almost, my always—you are still worthy of being missed.

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remembrance, time
Jo-Anne
March 31, 2025

Into the forest I go

March 31, 2025/ Guest Writer
Into the forest I go

I just wish I could walk and walk and walk and keep walking. Maybe forever. Into the mist of an impossibly dense forest on an impossibly steep mountain. And then walk some more. Maybe I will find him there.

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March 31, 2025/ Guest Writer/ 2 Comments
missing, nature, community
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March 11, 2025

Springtime lingering on my lips

March 11, 2025/ Kathy
Springtime lingering on my lips

i breathe into the sound of baby birds
calling for their mother
and i am reminded that you never will

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March 11, 2025/ Kathy/ Comment
poetry, seasons
Kathy
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