Society
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We Are Not Our Faces
Remember when we were kids and we realized for the first time that we were given a specific body that we could not change? Because of the genetic and ancestral circumstances that created our bodies for us? And how we will never be able to see our own faces? Even when we look in the…
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Wait For Gold
You miss out on more by moving too quickly. You miss out on good meals by eating whatever is in front of you without thanking the food and becoming numb with pleasure. You miss out on good conversation by walking past people and assuming they have nothing to offer you. You miss out on good…
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Body, A Thousand Years Old
We forget the power of the body. Bodies are always trying to get us to a state of homeostasis, to a state of balance. They’re always trying to make us the most healthy, efficient, nurturing, and stable version of ourselves. And if we listen to what they need, we will always be okay. We forget…
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Bad Banana Bread
I want to be a baker. I literally and figuratively tasted the joy of baking while working for a chef in Argentina. I felt the joy of working with my hands. I tasted the sweetness of sugar on my tongue. I had unlimited opportunities to make something beautiful with very few ingredients and little time…
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Attraction
Why are we often attracted to people who don’t show attraction back to us? Who don’t give us everything we desire and need from a relationship? Is that human nature? Or is that because our younger selves were just praised too much when we won things? When people gave us attention? When we achieved something…
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Let Yourself Go
How are people expected to know what they want in life? Why is it bad if someone doesn’t know what their next move is? Why is it a failure when someone has “let herself go?” When letting go is actually all we need to do to fully trust ourselves and to finally feel belonging. And…
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Deer
What if we just stopped thinking so much and just felt? Animals eat food and stay healthy without thinking, and some have brains the size of peanut shells. The ability to think and analyze and control and predict the future and imagine has made the human race rule the world. But it has also destroyed…
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Trees
Why does nature want to be alive and grow taller every day if it doesn’t do anything? Huh, capitalism? What’s your answer? I think maybe it’s because nature just wants to be alive. Trees don’t know what they look like. They don’t have fantasies. They just, become. Are consciousness of free will and imagined realities, such as…
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Suffering
She feels she has to suffer to deserve joy. So she derives herself from joy, suffering each day, only to gorge herself with pleasure. The man taught her that in order for her to “earn” joy she must work and behave and be quiet but yet be different and be beautiful but yet be intelligent…
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Vulnerability
She sits on a wood chair with a small cream cushion underneath. A lively small party commences in an old puesto in Argentina. The room is dark, only lit by a few candles in the center table. Argentinian tango music plays out of a small speaker while the fast paced Spanish voices compete in tangent.…
Ali Walks Around 