Month: July 2026
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Why Love & Happiness Always HurtThere’s no happily ever after. Mainly because there’s no ever after. The story just keeps going. There are happily’s and unhappily’s, and they just rotate. Loving someone, deeply, truly, doesn’t make the happiness stay. Happiness, and indeed having anything we want, doesn’t work that way. That’s why we talk about love with detachment. Loving the…
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The Compass to Good You Were Taught to Ignore
Humans have spent a long time worrying about starvation. The quivering family clutches their rags around them in the dreary hut. Outside, snow falls, and the rickety walls only welcome the draft. The little boy swallows his crust of bread in a single bite and stares desolately at the wall as tears come to his…
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I Was Evicted Once
It was Christmas, and I was looking at being evicted and homeless. With a toddler. With no spare resources to settle the house we were renting or get to a safe place. I couldn’t even get transport to the social services office. Our car had been smoking if it went over 40 miles an hour.…
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Weeds and What Matters
My front yard is covered with beautiful, invasive hawkweed. I spent an hour playing in the dirt today, digging them and their wild-runner roots out. They’re all mixed in with the clover, which the bees love, and the grass, which can hardly be seen. Our lives are like our yards – full of random things…
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Timeless Truths and Turtles All the Way Down
In ancient times, people walked across the earth, and wondered what was beneath them. What could be so vast? What is beyond the vast horizon? One answer was it’s all on the back of a giant turtle. And what, you may ask, is that turtle standing on? Well it’s turtles, all the way down! All…