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Fire is Catching

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation—either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. — Martin Luther King Jr. The world certainly feels to be on fire these…
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The Canary Poet

Storm The sky is raging, weeping. A hummingbird perches on the topmost branch of a wilted Japanese maple. She forgoes the feathery shelter of the towering cedars next to her, and instead dives toward the glass feeder hung a few branches below. Dive, feed, return, rest. A whole morning she keeps this beat, weathering the…
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Welcome to My Pocket Oasis
There was a time when writing was a revered art form: a living channel that connected hearts harmonious in spirit but separated, perhaps, by time and space. Free from the automated and monetized entrapments of life in the Digital Age, writing was simply an outlet for the natural instincts of human creativity, a way to…