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    • Where are the brakes? Gender Identity, Childhood and Thorns
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    • To Name Yourself: with love to the Trans Community
    • Cults: Pasadena—You Can Hide Things in Them There Hills
    • When You Want to Give Up on Your Dreams, Then You Watch a Holiday Movie
    • Antebellum: I Get It But…
    • Aunt Marion: The last of her generation
    • Somebody Feed Phil: Saigon and the Lotus Pond
    • I Burn: Bridges, Dreams and Leaving Things Behind
    • Coloring Book
    • National Suicide Prevention Day: I just had the thought
    • I’m Thinking of Ending Things: The film, the concept, the film, the concept
    • Neurodivergent Dora and the Lost City of Gold
    • Talk Therapy: What I Haven’t Learned and Other Drugs
    • Colored: Bowie, Iman and the Ridiculous Idea of Being Colorblind
    • Waking Up in a Funeral Home 🌚 🌞
    • The Umbrella Academy☂️☂️ Season 2: Klaus’ Best Lines
    • “The Trans Issue” at Work
    • Suited (2015): Dressing Gender
    • Birders: How “Vagrancy” is Reframed in Nature
    • When I Die Alone
    • 91 years old and Married!!!
    • Alignment: When a World Ends
    • Maeve’s Daughter: Westworld’s Character “Girdlock’d” on Her ‘Cornerstone’
    • Silent: When She’s Not The Angry Black Girl
    • Manic: Kanye West went South
    • PTSD: Pandemic Teacher Shaming Discourse
    • Richard Marx: Right Here Cussing You Out
    • Me and The Whirling Dervish
    • Black/Loving 🖤🤍🤎
    • Born in the USA: Racial Diversity in Soka Gakkai International
    • SGN: John Krasinski and The Three Poisons
    • It’s Not You, It’s Me
    • Respect the Virus 🦠
    • Abuelita: The Sorry is Sometimes Silent
    • Melissa Etheridge’s Son Beckett Dead at 21
    • Lovable Idiot: Forrest is For Real
    • A Great Pain: Sorry is Never Said
    • Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28 – The New York Times
    • Slumdog Millionaire: Irrfan Khan The Denouement
    • Memories are Ghosts
    • What It’s Like To Get Married on Zoom – ZORA
    • The Only Thing I Need
    • Love in the Time of Covid-19
    • Meet Brianna Brooks, An Artist Who Found Beauty in Solitude
    • ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
    • In Your Bag: or Having Feelings
    • Brene Brown on Vulnerability
    • Death and the Bull
    • Exposed: It is what it is
    • Wasted Talent: Calling for Submissions
    • Memories: In the Covid19 of My Mind
    • Doakes, Dexter and Self Love MF
    • Retrograde: What’s taking you backwards?
    • My So-Called Life
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    • Don’t Test Me
    • Keep Saying “I do”
    • Parasite: “This is so metaphorical”
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    • Ganesha Cards: #31 Decision
    • Ganesha Cards: #35 Personal Transformation
    • Ganesha Cards 3-card Spread: #16 Clear Your Energy, #18 Openness, #29 Positive Outlook
    • Ganesha Cards #14: Drive
    • Ganesha Cards 3-Card Spread: #48 Divine Support, #36 Healing, #37 Cultivation
    • Ganesha Cards #34: Capacity to Love 💗
    • Ganesha Cards #42: Achievement
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    • Ganesha Cards: #1 Beginnings
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    • To Name Yourself: with love to the Trans Community
    • Cults: Pasadena—You Can Hide Things in Them There Hills
    • Ganesha Cards #14: Drive
    • When You Want to Give Up on Your Dreams, Then You Watch a Holiday Movie
    • Antebellum: I Get It But…
    • Aunt Marion: The last of her generation
    • Somebody Feed Phil: Saigon and the Lotus Pond
    • Ganesha Cards 3-Card Spread: #48 Divine Support, #36 Healing, #37 Cultivation
    • Ganesha Cards #34: Capacity to Love 💗
    • Ganesha Cards #42: Achievement
    • I Burn: Bridges, Dreams and Leaving Things Behind
    • Coloring Book
    • Ganesha Cards 3 Card Spread: #22 Harmony, #47 Joy, #25 Be Candid
    • National Suicide Prevention Day: I just had the thought
    • Ganesha Cards #13: Understanding
    • I’m Thinking of Ending Things: The film, the concept, the film, the concept
    • Ganesha Cards #20: Protection
    • Neurodivergent Dora and the Lost City of Gold
    • Talk Therapy: What I Haven’t Learned and Other Drugs
    • Ganesha Cards #8: Promise of the Future
    • Colored: Bowie, Iman and the Ridiculous Idea of Being Colorblind
    • Waking Up in a Funeral Home 🌚 🌞
    • The Umbrella Academy☂️☂️ Season 2: Klaus’ Best Lines
    • “The Trans Issue” at Work
    • Suited (2015): Dressing Gender
    • Birders: How “Vagrancy” is Reframed in Nature
    • When I Die Alone
    • 91 years old and Married!!!
    • Alignment: When a World Ends
    • Maeve’s Daughter: Westworld’s Character “Girdlock’d” on Her ‘Cornerstone’
    • Silent: When She’s Not The Angry Black Girl
    • Ganesha Cards #43: Innocence
    • Manic: Kanye West went South
    • PTSD: Pandemic Teacher Shaming Discourse
    • Richard Marx: Right Here Cussing You Out
    • Ganesha Cards #22: Harmony
    • Me and The Whirling Dervish
    • Black/Loving 🖤🤍🤎
    • Ganesha Cards: #1 Beginnings
    • Born in the USA: Racial Diversity in Soka Gakkai International
    • Ganesha Cards: Past, Present and Future
    • Ganesha Cards: #33
    • SGN: John Krasinski and The Three Poisons
    • Ganesha Cards: #46
    • It’s Not You, It’s Me
    • Respect the Virus 🦠
    • Abuelita: The Sorry is Sometimes Silent
    • Ganesha Cards #23: Empowerment
    • Melissa Etheridge’s Son Beckett Dead at 21
    • Lovable Idiot: Forrest is For Real
    • Ganesha Cards #16: Clear Your Energy
    • A Great Pain: Sorry is Never Said
    • Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28 – The New York Times
    • Slumdog Millionaire: Irrfan Khan The Denouement
    • Memories are Ghosts
    • What It’s Like To Get Married on Zoom – ZORA
    • The Only Thing I Need
    • Love in the Time of Covid-19
    • Meet Brianna Brooks, An Artist Who Found Beauty in Solitude
    • ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
    • In Your Bag: or Having Feelings
    • Brene Brown on Vulnerability
    • Death and the Bull
    • Exposed: It is what it is
    • Wasted Talent: Calling for Submissions
    • Memories: In the Covid19 of My Mind
    • Doakes, Dexter and Self Love MF
    • Retrograde: What’s taking you backwards?
    • My So-Called Life
    • 😶 Ugly, Post Malone and Tattoos
    • Don’t Test Me
    • Keep Saying “I do”
    • Hate It When You Love
    • Parasite: “This is so metaphorical”
    • Get Out of My Train
    • Empath
    • 3s: The Suns We’re Seeking or My Brother and Me
    • Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?
    • We Marry, We Bury and #Poems Subsist
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    • 47 Years
    • Celebrity Declarations and the Unaffected Patriarchy 🤦🏽‍♀️
    • 🐵Separating: Liam, Miley and the Rest of Us🙈🙉🙊
    • 💫The Most Unique, Unimportant Thing in the World🌎
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    • Change Your Address: When Dialogue is Not Enough
    • Change Your Address: Living in the Buddha Land 🙏🏼🛤
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    • Because I Said So: A King’s Response
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    • Gaslighting Between the Lines
    • Relationship Primer: A setting for happiness
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    • 2018: A New Day in a New Year
    • 2017 The Year that Was
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    • Vows: Talking Points for a Possible Future
    • Nelsan Ellis: Eulogy for a True Blood
    • Vanity: A Celebration of Separation
    • Light Skinned Rage: A Celebration
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    • A Family Affair: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher
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    • October Birthstone: Tourmaline and Opal Inspiration
    • Passing: A Contemplation by sister dora
    • Home: Coming & Going
    • Maylin: A Reqium 
    • August Birthstone: Peridot
    • Jerika Bolen’s Last Stand
    • Delete Your Account
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    • July Birthstone: Ruby Red
    • @KyeTheCreator: Bringing Cultural Pride to Prom
    • June Birthstone: Alexandrite
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    “Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.” — June Jordan


    • October 6, 2022

      Ganesha Cards 3 Card Spread: #43 Innocence, #47 Joy, #36 Healing

      I do not suggest that the sun shines down on us every day. That is the truth. Even when the sky above us, between us… is gray.

    • October 5, 2022

      Poem: Haiku “Bad Books”

      “Bad Books” Our future firewood revolutionary reads save the stories please

    • July 6, 2022

      Sides

      Making up my mind is less about my mind Or creating anything that’s not already There / The requirement to identify And make known Yourself Which is not Unknown By the Universe Or the grasses Or the ever stretching sky / But to people Who have a need to know Something they can Relate to…

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