Victoria
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A Traveler’s Admission
This is not our home. I’ve seen realities that break my heart, bring me to bitter sorrow. I’ve met people who fill me to overflow with hope, an offering of light for tomorrow. When air becomes hard to breathe, I seek to disappear. Somehow, someway, there’s always You who meets me here. I see clearly,…
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Pain in the Pass-ion
The line is long enough. I do not care to file in with those who readily offer their anecdotes to following or dismembering one’s passion. Passion, after all, quite literally in ancient terms means “to suffer”. Oh, what a pain it brings. Giving of oneself vulnerably, genuinely. It leaves a mark. A deep and bloody…
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True to the feeling
You know those times when you need someone to look into your eyes and tell you that you are okay? Even as you feel anything but okay, they look at you and speak it. You then have the choice to defy your feelings and believe it. Abandonment (mostly as it relates to fullness of life…
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Courage might keep you in the trenches
The most common quality I have seen in the actions or inaction of male figures in my life, whether we are close-knit or accessory, is fear. By far, fear is the most unanimous quality. (Perhaps in people in general, so us females are not exempt by any means and I will be the first to admit…
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Well within us
A brief teleological exposé, if you will. I’m writing this for my friends and myself. It is fought for and hard. But, it’s good. Take heart, friend. Two points here toward the tension I personally feel and bodily carry. Echoed in conversations of shared reality with friends, family, and colleagues. Present in the eyes of…
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To Feel At Pieces
When you do not have the words, and emotions are tidal. When you do not know the path, clinging to what keeps you breathing. When you cannot sense release, and apathy is coming. When you want to be honest, but it seems better kept within your guard. When you cannot navigate the deep, yet you…
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One Way Conversation
Where there is not challenge, can there be growth? If it is not tested, can it be known? Easier to talk into a screen than to a person in front of you. Conversation is risky. You can look like a fool. Conversation is risky. You can reach a conclusion after dialogue with the whole selves (mind,…
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Love is what?
Transparency: I am currently in a spot with life where I am having to work hard to be encouraged and hopeful. Discouragement looms and often overwhelms. However, I am getting better at fighting back and looking up. Not for an escape or temporary fix. I am looking up for love—for a face looking back at…
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Comes Great Responsibility
If knowledge is power, and with power comes great responsibility — what comes with knowledge? It is highly non-debated that we have embarked as a post-modern twenty-first century Western culture into an accessibility of information that has informed and cultured societal, communal and individual realities in ways never-before imagined. What I am saying: you can…
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Vul-ner-ability
It is vulnerable to release what you deeply care about and hold dear into the world. It becomes exposed to the scrutiny, ridicule and tarnishing of others. What is so close to you all of the sudden can now be broken. This is the case for art (music and poetics included), writings, research and findings;…
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