Making Peace With Leaving and Those Who Leave

Making Peace With Leaving and Those Who Leave

When people leave, never fixate on the one who is leaving or who has left. There were people in your life who were there before this leaving happened, and there will be people in your life who will be there after this leaving happens. Leaving, like staying, requires...
From Dust to Dust

From Dust to Dust

Life is like a train, always on the move. The landscapes change as you watch them through the window of your cabin, and as they do, so do you. Soon, when you look back, 50 years have passed. 50 landscapes, 50 of you, 50 graves for 50 of your buried selves. What did...
If You Take Away The Memories

If You Take Away The Memories

If you take away the memories, what is left of a person? People are made up of their smiles, the lines and creases on their faces, the wrinkles that form on the corners of their eyes. People are made up of the way they laugh, and the way that laughter echoes; how does...
The Age of Perfect Illusions

The Age of Perfect Illusions

By Guest Writer [@FelicityAndElixirs] Dear all not-so-perfect humans, Do you remember that Snow White fairy tale that we all used to love in our childhood? If not, let me give you a quick summary. It was a story of a woman who was reminded so very often that she...
A Tangent on Death

A Tangent on Death

The world was torn asunder with war, plague, famine and utter loss, so I decided to sit with myself one day and write my own eulogy. I decided that whatever I was going to write about the dead me, the me who was no longer on this earth, was going to be free of poetry,...