Category: love
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Love, Actually
There is a film with this title and what comes to mind in this movie is the relationship between the characters played by Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, two of my favorite actors. There’s this moment that breaks your heart, where one spouse catches the other in an almost affair. I remember specifically the moment,…
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Training Day
So in getting “ready for the big day” there is this urgency or felt urgency to “get in shape.” And this time of year brings out the commercials of “Get in shape for summer” or “get your bikini body ready.” I don’t really feel out of shape. In fact, I’d say that I’m in pretty…
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22/30 April is National Poetry Month
Empathic – the ability or capacity to recognize and sometimes share in the feelings of others. Told by a therapist long ago that I was very empathic.I feel sometimes, too much.Sometimes it is too much for me to look into the eyes of another human being and see what they are feeling.If they are suffering…
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21/30 April is National Poetry Month
It is not enough to have known you.It is not enough to have the shared moments with you.It is not enough the brief sprinkling of time and space that held the words spoken between us.There is never enough time and space for that.You, funny, witty, own sense of humor and timing,not reluctant to reach out,…
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20/30 April is National Poetry Month
Nineteen “It’s the last year of your teen-aged years” she said,I was going to marry her sonThirties, two children and a drug habit that would take him from everything. I didn’t know that.I also didn’t know that love didn’t come on the end of acid filled tongues,rageful fits of thrown items across rooms,squeeling tires peeling…
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17/18/19 April is National Poetry Month
17. Why? Why did I decide that writing a poem a day would be a good idea?Why did I decide to embrace my creativity instead of stifle it? Why did I decide that 3 yoga classes in one day is a sane thing to do?Why did I decide to do yoga again the day after?Why…
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Poetry
Many times in a yoga class I have either read poetry or quotes or had poetry read to me. I went on Friday to an amazing slam poet Buddy Wakefield whose work really touches my soul. The past few days, that experience included, has really brought me into a new frame of consciousness. I’m shifting paradigms…
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Holidays
As the Holidays approach, I am taking the time to think and reflect about the past year before I plunge into the season. I say plunge because this is such a period of time where I can either be in the happiness or merriment of the season or swim through a turbulent and emotional fraught…
Jennie Olson Six 