Tag: letting go
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She wanted to keep the leaves from falling. She wanted to gather up the leaves that had already fallen and put them back in their place. They didn’t belong where they would be mindlessly trampled, forgotten, turned to unrecognizable brown and then to dust…
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He never seemed to do much with his thoughts other than jot them down on scraps of yellow paper which he pinned to his walls or folded and tucked into crevices throughout his house. For this, they called him the Idea Man…
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“Look at the trees,” I said to my son, “how old do you think they are?” “Very old,” my son replied. “Think about what they’ve seen,” I said. He was quiet for a moment, looking. Then he said, “They’ve probably seen hurricanes and tornados. Maybe even wars..
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The skirt of her lacy pink church dress struggled against her knees, threatening to bring her back down to earth, as she reached for the lowest branch. She paid no heed to the dirt that coated her white stockings…
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I have watched many people endure all kinds of pain and punishment, always blaming those around them, somehow not realizing that all they have to do is let go of the rope…