Category Archives: Reflections

Advice from a (Broken) Fortune Cookie

Broken Light Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I know each of these pieces represents … Continue reading

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Precious Life

What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?Let me keep my mind on my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your … Continue reading

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The Cardinal’s Song

He left the bar of soap upside down in its dish, melting; played the car radio too loud; lost his phone hourly; ignored the closet and piled his shoes by the front door; hogged the coat rack with his jackets; … Continue reading

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Past Paradise

When we were 12, we caught bullfrogs in the weeds near the lake. Their slippery legs slid through our fingers. As we let them go, she squealed, pretending to be scared. One day she ate a Popsicle that turned her … Continue reading

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Survivor’s Guilt

Something that we do a lot in our communities—I don’t just want to say in New Orleans, but something that we do in my type of neighborhoods—is we compare trauma. We wear our trauma as armor. So, because I wasn’t … Continue reading

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