Longing to Love
I’ve been loving the wrong way. I try to love others the way I need to be loved. I got it backwards. Each person has their own language in regards to love. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman describes each of them beautifully. We try so hard to get people to love us the […]
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Turtle Shell
There is this scene in the movie Brick (one of my all time favorite movies, by the way) where Brendan walks into the room and Laura is reciting poetry while playing softly on the piano. This is something that I have only dreamed of, but the truth is that I am too chicken shit to […]
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Hyper-Connected Relationships
I am not entirely sure where I heard about this book. I read a lot, and I read a lot of book reviews. Anytime I come across a book that I think looks interesting, I add it to my Goodreads list. Occasionally (okay, more like every other day) I receive an email from them with […]
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Iris Lane
We celebrate the beauty of rainbows After the rains. We forget This is the soul's path. Iris, Greek goddess of the rainbow, A bridge Between the earth And the next journey. Mad love, Jenna
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Good Grief
I remember the day I found out so vividly, except I felt so numb at the same time.
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How Are You Feeling Today?
As I have gone through the different iterations of these words on a page, I feel like I have evolved along with them in some ways. As the pages become, dare I say prettier, so have I in a sense. I can at least stop and ask myself what is really going on. That's more than I used to know. And that, my friend, is progress. And progress, to me, is quite pretty.
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The New Scarlet Letter
I wanted to belong so badly that I lost myself. That’s what shame really does to a person. It coerces us to conform, which in turn causes us to forget that certain parts of us exist. Humans are predisposed to want to be in community, to belong to a tribe of people with like-minded values. […]
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Stuff It
I had no fear. I hadn’t learned to fear anything yet. As a child I was interested in learning about everything. I climbed trees, and did so many other things that I would never even attempt now. As a child, you don’t know to be scared of things. You cry when you are sad. You […]
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My Turn to Speak
I hate speaking in public. It’s like putting yourself out there onto a stage of judgement. Everyone just stares at you with their mouths gaping open. I know it’s only five other girls, but it still scares the ever living shit out of me. My stomach is in knots. I feel like Eminem’s character in […]
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To Run Or Not to Run?
Lacing up my running shoes for the first time in over ten years was daunting. I knew that the first run was going to be an incredibly humbling experience. I walked most of it, and I ended up crying. Not a painful ‘I twisted my ankle’ sort of cry, but a lethargic release of pent […]
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