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A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes

27 Dec 2019 3 minute read 0 comments ccuthbertauthor

Dreams have the ability to make you smile as soon as you wake up. Alternatively, they also have the power to completely destroy you, once you realize it wasn’t real. I lost my dad almost 30 years ago. Not a day has gone by where I didn’t wish it was...

When You Learn to Be a Pivot Character in Your Life

14 Dec 2019 3 minute read 0 comments ccuthbertauthor

I like to tell myself I’m a patient person. But anyone who knows me will tell you this is fantasy. I try to be patient. It’s a virtue I’ve never mastered, but practice regularly. Often I believe it’s my ultimate lesson to learn, since I am tested on...

How Grief and Love are Similar

10 Dec 2019 2 minute read 0 comments ccuthbertauthor

“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot...

Mr. Pessimist and The Perfect Couple (Humor)

9 Nov 2019 4 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure to make your acquaintance, it's always nice to meet you now. Public Setting. Girlfriend with an Attitude... My Filipina girlfriend and I were having lunch - a very, very...

The Path to Healing a Broken Road in a Relationship: pt1 Money

29 Oct 2019 3 minute read 1 comment smiles0708

Money can lead someone and their relationship on a path towards destruction. We all have found ourselves on that path one time or another in our lives and a lot of us are still struggling to fight this battle. How many times have you heard from your...

Life Changing - Log #24 Burning Bridges

16 Oct 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Pajeebear

Have you tried burning bridges? I have and I have been doing it quite a while long ago that I felt like an expert in doings. Oh no, no, it's not a bragging rights, in fact it's a statement full of regrets. Looking back at my younger self now, I real...

Consensual power play within sex and the huge gulf in between that and abuse/rape/sexual assault... TW

11 Oct 2019 3 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf

NOTES ON CONSENT I have been thinking lots on the idea of sexual consent & dynamics. In many ways it is really very simple but as current discussions have shown, it's not really. When lovers have strong sexual telepathy between them, overt (verbalise...

Poem for my eldest ♥️ for her first relationship break up

10 Oct 2019 1 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf

DAUGHTERHOOD (pricklypear)     That unmistakable mirror  Of parenthood  Stares back With eyes of gold Impassioned Firm Unblinking  Beyond bold Deeper brown  Than even my own But as i swim closer to the shore I feel land  I sense home In those eyes B...

Hopes

27 Sep 2019 3 minute read 4 comments mgaft1

"Grandpa, grandpa, look at those fishes!" The little boy pulled Russell by his hand toward the bridge. The bridge crossed an artificial pond. From the height of a bird's flight, the pond looked like glasses with the nose bridge, where it was crossed...

How To Forge Deeper Connections With People

21 Jul 2019 6 minute read 1 comment Raymondspeaks

I have been a shit friend in the past. I’ll be honest with that one right now. It’s a wonder those that have stuck with me, have actually stuck with me as long as they have. That is more-so a testament to their awesomeness, rather than mine. I have f...