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Archive for stuff that is not evergreen but we want to keep. Old gift guide articles, etc.

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Never Lose Sight

I need to get me a little notebook to keep with me all the time to jot stuff down in or maybe there is a program or app.  There’s an app for that! There is something about having a little notebook and actually writing on a page that makes it seem more like a writer

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Insomnolent Soul

is it sadness or is it madness that permeates my soul this longing for TIME LONG FORGOTTEN BY MOST a time of carefree youth that I squandered NOT REALIZING one day it would be gone so busy chasing an elusive dream never stopping to see the beauty in the sun wanting to grow up so

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Two Plastic Eggs

Two plastic eggs On a fake china plate Two embryos Vying for life in a petri dish Two ideas Whose time has yet come Waiting for life to be breathed into them Like a man that is way past his prime Socks sagging around his ankles Shuffling feet Heading no where fast Walking to the

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Salvation through Discipline

When you’re a writer the first thing you do in the morning is write even if it’s just one sentence or one word. You write. That is the discipline that I learned from participating in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I have wanted to be a writer as long as I can remember but

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Hope in a Jar

    Retinol in the morning and placenta cream at night. Wash your face in cold water it will tighten your pores. We will do anything to save face.   My entire life I was told do not under any circumstance put soap on your face. It will dry out your skin and make you age

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Finding Self in Love

You enter into the room and I am at once lost and found I am you and you are me and we are one but we are nothing and everything at once we are whole united   In romantic love we are always searching for that feeling. That initial feeling of falling in love, deep,

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#SoCS Eclectic Evelyn Soup Du Jour #Dortch

No Soup du Jour for Evelyn

Today I found out about Stream of Consciousness Saturday. It is a blog challenge where you are given a prompt and you have to write what ever comes to your mind not editing except spelling. You write as much or as little as you like. I love this challenge because this is how I write

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