Original art by Annie ig: houseofkaramazov Light, once easy, soft and kind The beauties in my life were taken for granted. Love of music, that one special chord, the frequency that makes your skin sing (mine is A flat, by the way), or waking up with the sun in the spring, stretching so your bones crinkle right before your body relaxes, or typing 100 words per minute when you're feeling inspired, fingers flying across a keyboard faster than thought. I loved calligraphy. These

My English professor asked us to pick a noun and to write what it smelled, felt, tasted, sounded, and looked like using one word, and then she asked us to write a personal essay. I chose grief (not that anyone chooses grief as a rule). Today is my mother's 70th birthday, I wrote this last week. Source: ebay My phone vibrated and somehow over a dead sleep I heard it. The caller ID said "Claresholm General" and without being conscious of it, I think I knew. My first instinct w

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