Tag: dailyprompt
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Unsolved Mysteries…
I was a 70s/80s kid… This meant movies like E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars (like, the first one… in the theater). Old Doctor Who episodes. Star Trek. I loved it. My dad was a bit of a sci-fi fan. I think he passed it on to me. So…
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Direction
Did you ever read that poem, The Road Not Taken? It’s a poem in which the writer has to choose a road, and he decides to take the one less traveled which in retrospect has made all the difference. (The actual meaning of the poem that I only learned about more recently than I care…
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Acceptance
There’s this phrase they use in AA, from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: “Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.” I’d say more than anything, that’s a phrase that I’ve adopted for my own and one that I live by. But let’s talk about what acceptance does and does not mean. Acceptance…
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Risks
According to Merriam-Webster, a risk means “possibility of loss or injury” or “someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard.” I suppose then, the last time I took a risk was when I recently did a five mile race that I hadn’t trained for. I had signed up for it last year, along with…
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Words I Should Have Said… Things I Should Have Done
Have you ever gotten close to someone, and for any number of reasons, they were suddenly gone from your life but you didn’t get to say goodbye? Sometimes it happens… There are people I think of over the past few years that I’ve taken care of more times than I can count. And suddenly (or…
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Grateful
I’m grateful that… I got to see TAGABOW with my sister and my son I’m done with class this semester (finished my last paper two weeks early) I have a job I have two kids that I love I have a family and friends and a boyfriend I have a car and a roof over…
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Decisions Made and Solo Camping
Every once in a while, I’ll go solo camping. I’m talking tents. Campfires. Dealing with huge scary spiders by myself. I love spending time in the woods. I was a girl scout my entire childhood, and went on more adventures than I can count. And maybe it’s because of that, but I still love being…
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A Change for the Better
It can be hard to make a change. I graduated nursing school in the middle of COVID, having gone back after my kids were older and my ex and I had separated. I worked full-time in retail and then hospital pharmacies, going to nursing school part-time. After working for about a year on my unit,…
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Are “exercise” and “fun” mutually exclusive?
It’s so subjective. But what I’ve found is that the exercise for me that’s the most fun is the exercise that I do without noticing it. It’s the long hikes in the woods, the 5ks where I’m jogging with lots of other people. It’s the times when I’ve played soccer with my kids. When I…
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If I Could be Anyone…
First pick-I’d want to be Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings. Because how cool would it be to be a strong and wise elf?! And, she has epic-ly long, golden hair. Second pick-Alma Whittaker from The Signature of All Things. A botanist who spends a lifetime studying moss and travels. Sounds pretty cool to…
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