Tag: generational trauma
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Slow
Slow food Slow fashion Slow travel Slow love The good stuff that’s worth living for, the stuff novels are made of, take a long, slow time. this is the part where you reveal who you are through your life choices, through the adventures, the transformations of time. It’s when you don’t know what will happen…
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Inner child meets the present adult self
there’s a scene in a movie where a kid is crying and scared and angry and hitting and punching an adult with tears streaming down her face, until exasperated, she breaks down crying and her little arms wrap around the adult that isn’t reacting but simply present and strong and calm. It feels like this…
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Alone with the sea
I have had many conversations alone with the ocean 15 years ago, 3 years ago, 6 months ago. It asked me what is it like to be a woman with a family, to know people who have died, to feel pride and love and hate? I said being alive feels like a story And I…
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Alone with the sea
I have had many conversations alone with the ocean 15 years ago, 3 years ago, 6 months ago. It asked me what is it like to be a woman with a family, to know people who have died, to feel pride and love and hate? I said being alive feels like a story And I…
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Eyes
There were people looking out at the world through your eyesPeople who could only see while you were awake and dream while you were dreaming,and you thought you were alone, you thought you didn’t matter
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Social fabric
My society My connection to other people My universe of love Is always smaller and more fragile than a man’s So I never worry what a man needs from me I never try to stay connected I never try to mend the social fabric for a man I’m here to break love not make love…
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Little Haiti
I was in little Haiti which is probably the worst neighbourhood in Miami and I booked a cheap hotel by accident not knowing how bad the neighbourhood was. The hostel itself was decent for the price and people moved with an eerie but harmless quiet. I shared a room with a girl that told me…
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12/27/2022
It took my 32 years to learn what I can and can’t do I can’t save my brother, I can’t save my dad This is freedom This is breathing
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If
He’s given me so many small versions of himself Some hint here and there about his intentions with me Nothing I could reach for Some joke about marriage being like the Truman show But he never responds directly to my questions Just let’s me brew and obsess Running in circles Feeling insane But I imagine…
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On the road, far away
I’m not sure this is heartbreak. I don’t know what this is. I don’t think about him. I’m not the person that thinks about him. I’m not the person that reminds me of the kind of person that likes him and wants his approval. I’m not the same person that moved to his city or…
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