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  The Waiting
    Map Of Emotion

    The Waiting

    September 15, 2020January 7, 2024
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    How does one learn waiting when one has always lived from distraction to distraction? What are goals but distractions from a life that is endless waiting while drifting?

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    Digital World | Map Of Emotion | WorkSpace

    Tripping The Light Content Verse

    September 14, 2020August 14, 2023
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    How I became a content person – it’s more than writing. It’s more than reading.

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  A Good Egg
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    A Good Egg

    September 8, 2020February 25, 2025
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    A friend shared a pic of a poached egg and it began a conversation about food I never thought I’d be in. I am learning that food is so much more than fuel.

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  A Poet & A One-Woman Band (Former Workaholic)
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    A Poet & A One-Woman Band (Former Workaholic)

    September 1, 2020August 13, 2023
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    I was a high functioning workaholic. A frenzied mind does not have room for joy. It’s hard to answer Are you happy?

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  On The Sitcom Couch
    Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    On The Sitcom Couch

    September 1, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I’m still untangling my thoughts on this because I’m realising Ross represents male vulnerability on F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

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  Male Vulnerability: Bromance Hope
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    Male Vulnerability: Bromance Hope

    August 27, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I read a really lovely book, featuring a club of men in traditionally macho professions (sports jocks, nightclub owners) getting together to learn about women and relationships by reading romance novels. The premise tickled me and its chicklit style carried me through well. Most of all, I found myself feeling…

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  Threadwork Therapy: Crochet Needle Healing
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    Threadwork Therapy: Crochet Needle Healing

    August 18, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I picked up the crochet needle today. I began crocheting in 2002 after I heard it was calming. My impatient younger self had been bored by the labor but in 2002 I found something else. I was struggling through something I did not understand, had no support or idea how…

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    Sin Addiction

    August 11, 2020August 14, 2023
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    Don’t I look like all the sins you’re going to commit tonight? Feeling flows through me the way water runs through the planet. What is sin but another you rippling along?

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    A Thousand Apologies

    August 5, 2020March 22, 2023
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    After I asked women to share instances when men apologized to them, I realised something stood in the way of men and the word SORRY. I want to believe men are as rational & feeling as women and can see the damage done by not taking responsibility for their actions….

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  Recuperate
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    Recuperate

    August 4, 2020February 25, 2025
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    For the ones dealing with long-buried memories and healing from old wounds. It’s time to recuperate.

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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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