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  • Ego. Painting of person floating down a river between mountains.
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    Learning An Impersonal Kind Of Ego – Grey’s Anatomy

    November 7, 2021January 5, 2024
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    I’ve always loved learning. It’s been the quest of my ego. In college, I had a professor who used to say, “When the student is ready, the teacher arrives.”

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  Soft Places
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    Soft Places

    October 30, 2021March 3, 2023
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    You can be grateful for the beauty & also upset at the ugliness. The things that inspire these co-exist & sometimes in the same place. Why would the feelings that these bring up, not be able to occupy the same mind simultaneously? Human beings can feel more than one feeling…

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  When Abandonment Wounds Are Your Teacher
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    When Abandonment Wounds Are Your Teacher

    October 27, 2021March 3, 2023
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    There comes a point when you have to act like the person who left you will never come back. It’s essential to accept it in order to seek healing. But at some point, you must also ask yourself that if they do return, whether you’ll take them back. That’ll tell…

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  Love Gardener
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    Love Gardener

    October 25, 2021September 17, 2023
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    Love does arrive, neatly packaged. It grows in mud that stains. Sometimes it poisons your being. Still, I keep it watered and nourished. Because, have you see the flowers?

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  People Who Married Too Early
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    People Who Married Too Early

    October 23, 2021September 28, 2023
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    In my 20s, I was made to pick a side in the battle of the Smug Married vs the Singles. I didn’t create that division, they did.

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  Learning To Read Poetry
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    Learning To Read Poetry

    October 9, 2021February 27, 2025
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    Most bookshops don’t have an entire aisle on poetry. Poetry has never really found a home in my book shelf or life.

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  You Are In Our Conversations
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    You Are In Our Conversations

    October 3, 2021September 17, 2023
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    You are in my conversations. You are part of my conversations. You are in every breath even as I’m profoundly me.

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  The Love Depths
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    The Love Depths

    October 1, 2021March 5, 2023
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    We don’t love people because they deserve it. We love people because we deserve it. These are our depths.

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  A Rather Long Monologue But It’s Poetic
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    A Rather Long Monologue But It’s Poetic

    September 24, 2021December 29, 2023
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    A monologue because is love ever anything else? If we’re lucky both faces of love are modeled for us in clear, unambiguous ways.

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  Love Language
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    Love Language

    September 18, 2021March 5, 2023
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    LOVE LANGUAGE – my journey deciphering my experiences through the words of love songs in different languages

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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