Tag: letting go
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Paying It Forward
I don’t worry how my old clothes will look on their new owners at Goodwill. They have places to be, stories to live beyond my closet. Still, letting go feels strange. I hesitated at the donation bin, fingers brushing fabric worn soft by years of routine. Shirts that carried me through long days, pants that…
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The End of the Pier
I walked to the end of the pier and could not throw your ashes into the sea.It was easy with my father— to see his blackness float in the air and settle on the wrack line, neither the earth nor sea’s possession.But you, dear friend, my lost sister not of the soul but of pain,…
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She rise
He didn’t want her to go into triteness until he get to the other side of her memory floating away like a balloon, an ordinary thing, an ordinary word, in a world full of the weight of ordinary things. – She was floating away word by word, a balloon on a string with a heart…