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Fortune Cookie Fortunes to Take Super Duper Seriously, Kind Of.
You will stub your toe. It will hurt. Then it will hurt a little less. Then soon it will not hurt at all, and you will gain an appreciation for your freshly healed toe the likes of which you’ve yet to experience since the last time you stubbed your toe. A chance to be kind… Continue reading
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If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
“Well, how do you folks defecate?” “Through our skin.” “Oh.” “Yes, so you can see why we might wish to, uh, heh-heh.” ❤️ Continue reading
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The Stream
Are you happy nowmy saintly eye? Are youblessed with the dawnthat wakes you throughthe sharp fly-wingedblinds that banish lightbut little carrythe box of fire oncepromised your youth?Should we trek thatnarrow stereoscopiccanyon wherein splitsa layered cake of fossilof life time nixedinto the receding splaysof history’s page,a camera shutter flayedinto chopped bitsof wonder and sorrowand the nesting… Continue reading
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What is the best excuse you have heard lately?
I’ve waited all week to spit into a can. I’m secretly a deer and it’s my time to flee. The circle of evil breaks this night. Bear attack! All of my self-assurance has spread at an alarming rate and I think it’s time to rein it in a bit. What? No board meeting for me;… Continue reading
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Spurs
What a rebel, calling peace antidoteand poem testamentof all days and nights that follow usinto obscurity, anonymity, the maskundone, and behind it frailmystic menace shot with fright.What a bone to pick with you,lonely dancer of the songchanted in terse, voluptuous terrorthat might’ve carried with its bellclinging to the clang and cuckooa simpler tale of the… Continue reading
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What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts?
Negative thoughts are often a silent alarm (or a fire alarm, depending) that something in me requires attention. The inclination of the human in me is, perhaps, to pay attention with dominance, the desire to quell the alarm with a firm response. Seems the route most efficient to ending the problem, which appear to be… Continue reading
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What’s a common misconception people have about happiness?
In The Pursuit of Happiness the protagonist (I forget his name…Will Smith) says it made him wonder, how Thomas Jefferson knew to pen the idea on the constitution that happiness was a thing to pursue as though something never really attained, but chased. Something like that. I think the other side of the coin is… Continue reading
