When I saw my room redecorated with my favorite—and expensive—paint, the word compassion was not on my vocabulary. Yet, when I saw you covered in paint and excitedly mom how you were painting just like your older sister was—and the same materials—I told mom it was my fault for...
Henry David Thoreau was on to something very crucial for our time when he asked, “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” Empathy is a gift that enables us to take the perspective of another, to see the...
It’s not always that easy to speak with your own voice, to know how to express your own truth, or even to know that you have a voice of your own. There are many things throughout our lives that can suppress the desire, the ability, or the courage to...
If you get bucked off in life, get back on.
He stares at the waves as they crash into the rocky beach. With a kind of violence that is unique and quite in sync with his emotions. Today would forever remain a very dark spot in his memory. The day that she left him, high and dry in a...
The alarm goes off now i’m awake. I check the new notification on my phone. It reads “Amazon package arrives in 20 min. “The day is here”! “It’s 10:00 am, and the delivery of the package is imminent.” I spring leap off the mattress and rush for my clothes...
Ask, and it is given, or be silent and lost.
A dancing butterfly confined between dust and death, tussle the idea of loss.
Sweat rains from my body as I near the end of my run. I keep myself going by remembering that I am my father’s legacy.
It was sunny outside; I was taking my morning walk. It was a humid day, and I was sweating more than normal. I came to the realization of how happy and complete I feel when I walk near the ocean. I just need a little companion. I’ll get a...
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