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Lament
Sorry for my absence. I went away for about two weeks by myself before my amputation surgery. Then I chopped my hand off. Then I took two weeks off of work and dove headlong back into full time work, picked up a second job, and started my third semester of grad school. I simply…pretended like…
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How do you say goodbye?
https://youtu.be/uIakj3ud9dc Grief is a rat bastard. It likes to pop up and sucker punch you when you least expect it. Sometimes, it feels like it will sink you to the bottom of the ocean and other times it feels like that nagging thought that you are missing something. Today marks 6 years without my uncle.…
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The Hope…and the Terror
Approved. I have been waiting to see those words on my screen this entire year. And it is finally approved. ‘It’ being the amputation. I am relieved and hopeful and scared and terrified and happy all at the same time. Alllllll the feels. So what do we do when we feel all the feels?? I…
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The In-Between
Do you ever feel stuck? Like you wish you could wiggle a little and move your life forward? Keeping with the mining theme, it’s like spelunking and getting into a ‘squeeze.’ I know nothing of actual spelunking, just to be clear…But I have read about getting in between two rocks or in between the entrance…
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Hurry Up and Wait
I grew up in a military family and one of my early life lessons was to hurry up and wait. The concept meant you had to make sure you were at least 15 mins early to everything (or an hour early, which is still my comfort zone…) and then you have to actually wait for…
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‘Forth and Fear No Darkness’
I’m a little bit obsessed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, especially the people of Rohan. I love their fighting spirit, how they never give up even when the odds are against them. I also love one of their battle cries – ‘Forth…and fear no darkness!’ Darkness has been a constant…
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Jewels from the Dark
The more life I experience, the more I am convinced that we must learn to embrace the darkness that visits us all. Life is full of bright moments and depths of darkness. While we may crave the sunlight, we must learn to mine the jewels from the dark. I have spent the majority of my…
Jewels from the Dark 