“Hard yet silky.”
By all accounts, it’s a juxtapose.
An ostensible irreconcilable phrase.
Yet, according to a dear friend in my professional space, that’s me. It’s a part of how he recently described me. Of course, he said more, but that particular detail intrigued me right away. …
The lovely Meryl Streep said:
“What makes you different or weird? That’s your strength.”
As far as I know, not many people get me. I can be somewhat left-field with my whimsical-like introverted ways. Eccentric. Direct. Reserved. Wild. Kind. Deep. …
“Please, show me the way,” I ask the stars. As if their cryptic shine will magically unravel the path ahead of me.
Do the stars answer?
When you ask, the answers are always given. Only, listening to the signs of the universe isn’t as easy as picking up the phone…
I've got this thing about animals that cross my path and mainly take note when I happen upon a rarity, like that gorgeous echidna above.
Whether animals visit us in our real life or dream world, I believe it is seldom a coincidence and that their appearance always holds meaning…
“The beauty of you is how you wear who you are.”
— Timothy Egart.
I once knew a man who took “wallow days” when things were going south or he was having trouble dealing. …
Two attractive women walk into a crowded bar. Their pale lips accentuate dark glossy hair, and the color of their eyes are almost identical. They can practically pass for sisters, but their appearance is where their similarities end. They are opposites. …
In hindsight, I always knew he’d come for me like a drill pleasantly pushing into my body, or two full tanks clashing, or twin asteroids on course for a head-on collision without fear of impact. …
She thought she was the only woman, but the tell-tale signs were there. In her face and under her nose while she watched T.V., and he pounded away on his laptop behind her on the couch, presumably getting through his day’s quota.
He wasn’t.
Instead, he was fully immersed in…
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
— Rumi
It isn’t even that some of us have an uncanny niggling that time is neither our friend nor…
“You are not going to be you — fixed, immutable you — forever.”
— Nora Ephron.
“You’re still young,” I tell myself as I ignore my increasingly creaky joints and chase down a handful of vitamins with purified water. …
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