Happy Mother’s Day

May 12, 2018 S D 0 Comments

The water of her womb, your first home. The body she pulled apart to welcome you to the world. The spirit in you she helped grow with all she knew. The heart that she gave you when yours fell apart. You are her soft miracle. So she gave you her eyes to see the best …

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Throw Kindness Around Like Color Powder

March 1, 2018 S D 0 Comments

If you actually sit down and reflect, it’s not that difficult to be nice to people. Even to complete strangers, all you have to do is not be mean. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? I really like Kate Spade, the quirky fashion designer and she said, ‘Throw kindness around like confetti’. I mean when I was …

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How Are You Feeling Today?

February 11, 2018 S D 0 Comments

‘How Are You Feeling Today?’ is something I drew last week and it records my emotions on that particular day. I always say ‘I’m fine’, whenever anyone asks me how I’m doing. Isn’t that what we all say anyway? We aren’t always aware our own innermost emotions. It’s something we really only think about when …

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On Falling In Love

July 19, 2017 S D 0 Comments

John Steinbeck’s 1958 Letter On Falling In Love Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902–December 20, 1968) might be best-known as the author of East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men, but he was also a prolific letter-writer. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters is an alternative biography of the iconic …

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Love Is Not Enough

July 12, 2017 S D 0 Comments

One of these two men had a clear and realistic understanding of love. One of them did not. One of these men idealized love as the solution to all of his problems. One of them did not. One of these men was probably a narcissistic asshole. One of them was not. In our culture, many …

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You Helped Me To Be

July 10, 2017 S D 0 Comments

I Chose A Lovely Fig

June 29, 2017 S D 0 Comments

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was …

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