The Extraordinary You
/You're a gift to the world. Breathe that in. Feel it. Embrace it. Admit it
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…a bold stance to ask the universe to affirm your greatness. It’s a daring move to tell others that you’re…
By John C. Davis
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Grinding Halt
/The search for my true self continues to this day. But I do realize now it is a journey without distance.
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…year was 1987. I was twenty-two and just escaped from my first Buddhist retreat.
May all beings be safe.
I chanted as I drove my ‘71 Ford Falcon away from the compound down a dark…
By James Macdonald
Read MoreToads on Lily Pads
/…used to be a green pond once next to our house. This house had a red tiled roof and picture windows. It was situated on a hill known as the Dev Pahar in Chittagong. Through those picture windows, I could see the pond down by the valley. The pond was not too far. From the hilltop, it looked mostly surrounded by heavy moss growing on tall trees and bamboo…
By Mehreen Ahmed
Read MoreSteve Jobs
/…had not graduated from college and this was his vision, though he had built his own wealth and life even after death. Other people built their wealth after graduating from college, which seems to be an essential issue to be done. People around the world and from different times had been separated into…
By Bushra Toghar
Read MoreYou Are Alone, and You Are Connected
/I invite you to embrace your isolation as a time of self-exploration. Use this time to do something you have…
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…sitting on my back porch two days ago watching the ducks swimming on our pond. I was reminded about how nature takes care of itself. I was reminded that the ducks don’t need to worry about…
By John C. Davis
Read MoreChange of Venue
/…are meant to be seen, but not trailers. They’re backstage stuff. No one wanted to be reminded of them, so they were kept as far out of sight as possible next to factories and dumps. Or, better yet, not allowed at all by city ordinance. As the only child of a 1950s traveling floor show magician known as the…
By John-Ivan Palmer
Read MoreExist
/…is not always a sure thing. Perhaps that’s why we have covered it in the beauty sleep security blanket of language. A quilt made from the grammar of laughter, syllables of solitudes, rules for exceptions, ordering through punctuation. It is fastened tense to our past futures ever present, while we dream-juggle…
By Omer Wissman
Read MoreDo Not Grief
/…they settled our hearts, so we left their company with them, for fear of the weight of any soul. I did not take you so-and-so. May I love you to have a great living."
I tore out of my heart's passion to anger him, so it was good to joke with angry lovers, so he would desert me and leave him, and he would strike us with the shadows, the question, and the…
By Bushra Toghar
Read MoreUprising Verses Speculation The Last of Humanity
/…virus usage? The vape smokers seemed to catch the first virus rather fast. However, that tapered off once the US government figured out what was going on. The next attempt? The AI in the Chinese mainframe took over a military complex. The AI figured or was figuring how to eliminate Hong Kong along with avoiding…
By Clinton Siegle
Read More“Of Love”
/A disquisition after the manner of Sir Francis Bacon's 59 Essays discoursing on several elements of Erōs using common sense, philosophy, and history as guide and sources.
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…word with so many possible meanings that it is an abstract heavy-laden with numerous connotations and images for just as equally possible and various numbers of…
By Ngoc Nguyen
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