Year: 2020
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(Untitled).
Close your tired eyes. Taste the tingle of mint upon your lips as your chest rises and falls in an unrealized rhythm. You are here. You are here. You are here. Remember in the fourth grade when they said you’d changed? Or when you saw your name written on an old youth group prayer list?…
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Pretty Good.
I am pretty good at waking up before the alarm. I am pretty good at writing on chalkboards. I am pretty good at disarming people with logic and reason. I am pretty good at parallel parking. (Okay. I’m actually pretty badass at this.) I am pretty good at seeing the best in people. . .…
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Not Good.
I am not good at pretending to be busy. I am not good with numbers, statistics, or chronology. I am not good at dressing professionally. I am not good at making ‘data’ seem worthwhile. I am not good at chit-chatting in work-related peer groups. . . . I am not good at posting on Social…
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Packaged Joy.
Hi. (waves guiltily after not posting over the weekend) It’s Monday, my flavorite day of the week. And despite job frustrations and political bullshitters and soaring cases of COVID-19, I’m declaring it Family Fun Afternoon. (Yo.) Which, will involve me eating pretty much all of the things: macaroni salad; a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie;…
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Video Tape Head.
The night clouds are sinking. Familiar whisper. Warmth in the sheets. Sweet sleep. . . . SnapDragon is a writer, artist, and admirer of autumn leaves. Follow her Two-Bit Musings and more on Snippets of SnapDragon.
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Another Shout-Out.
I got another blogger award, yo. (bites fist and blushes) Sheryl, my dear blogger-friend, graciously nominated me. (Thanks, Sheryl!) Be sure to check out her posts on Sheryl’s Light. And so, it looks like I have a few questions to answer! On we go: . . . 1. What is your favorite childhood memory? Oo,…
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Brain Dump, Yo.
Ahh, yes. Time to let out a few half-baked notions before calling it a night. (And also figuring out how to gently wake up Henry and Raja, my sweet felines, who are both currently snoozing on top of me.) Brain Dump, Yo. 1. I love coffee ice cream. Like, old-fashioned, hand-dipped, plain creamy coffee ice…
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Let it In. (An Announcement)
Hi! (starts waving innocently) Because I feel an odd sense of responsibility to my fellow WordPressers, I just wanted to make a little announcement of sorts: I’m cleaning house, yo. I get overwhelmed. (Like, a lot.) Too many options stress me out. (Being a vegetarian, this comes in handy at restaurants. There are usually about…
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Healing.
Poem 5. Written by SnapDragon X. (Um, like everything else on this site, yo.) these cracked feet, cracked hands and crackling lines around my eyes whisper in harmonious healing. the weeping and seeping of water has dried. a tortoise shell; a vacant nest; a notebook whose pages have been burned. yesterday is a vanished ache.…
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Perfect Day. (A Version)
If I could snap my fingers and conjure up the perfect day. . . (Cue the wobbly screen of a 90s-sitcom dream sequence) A Perfect Morning: I wake up naturally, with the bedroom window cracked ever so slightly. An audible drizzle patters on the roof. Eggs scrambled in a cast-iron skillet; French butter; freshly-ground coffee.…
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