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I had a soulmate. She passed away nearly a year ago. But because our connection was through our souls, I still have her. And, in many ways like I was never allowed to have her before. I was truly despondent over her death. My heart was set adrift in a way I had never experienced.…
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So I have this job. Its not a bad job. I like the work and it pays me slightly more than enough to pay my bills. Though the people I work with aren’t “my” people, we all recognize we are all working toward the same goal. And for the most part we stay on task.…
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In March of 2019, I got a new job. I was desperately unhappy in the job I had at the time, so I just started looking for a new one in February. As with any job that is really worth having, the process from submitting the application to receiving an offer letter was a long…
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My life, like all lives, has been a circuitous road to wherever it may be going. Sometimes there was a somewhat thought out plan about my next move, but mostly I learned how go with the flow. Although flow is a misidentifier. More like I learned how to absorb the bumps and change course. My…
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I follow a well know historian on a social media site. He posed a common question that often appears on days like today. How would the world be different if Martin Luther King were still alive? That got me to thinking. Then I saw an old clip of Dr. Kings final speech and I wanted…
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2023 has been a difficult year. In time, I will look back on this year with the pain of loss, the emptiness of longing and the darkness of heartbreak. Bad times befall every year of life, but those times are usually tempered with the good. Not 2023. I was born the sixth of seven children,…
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I work in the warehouse of a small company. It is a successful company which has been in business for over 25 years. They have recorded steady growth until the pandemic when practically all businesses suffered major fluctuations. Now, it seems, we have finally achieved some semblance of prosperity. But I fear the future successes…
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Repair and reparations are derived from the same Latin word meaning “restore.” With the current movement of offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, I have been thinking a lot about how reparations themselves can somehow repair the damage done by the harmful policies that created all wrongs done to all people of color. I…
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My life path has gone through many phases. It began in darkness with small flickers of light that kept me moving forward. The proverbial carrot on a stick. The trick was to figure out how to move toward the light without and not extinguish the flame with my forward momentum. In other words, I had…
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