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What Do Trees Think About?
I’m writing this under a tree. I needed space. The world likes to take from you. And I admit, I take from the world sometimes, too, when I know I’m not at my state of…
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Little Warriors
To feel the love of your child means also to feel the heartbreak when a child eventually moves away from their parent. To feel the love of a pet means also to feel the pain…
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Sickness
We are still the same after a diagnosis. We were sick before the diagnosis, and we are still sick afterwards. The only thing that is different is that now our minds actually think we are…
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What Is True?
What is true? True is the warmth I feel when I hear a beautiful song. The intuition I feel when I’m in a bad situation. The quickness of breathe I get when I stand close…
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Homes
Home. I get it now. I get why people love their homes so much. As young kids, we don’t often get to choose our homes. We don’t get to chose a lot of things in…
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The Only Virus We Can Kill
I’ve been choosing to find joy and delights each morning. I’ve been practicing talking to myself about what I’m grateful for and granting myself permission to enjoy every moment throughout each day. But I couldn’t…
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Hearing Your Own Heart
You know those moments when you hear your own heart beating? It definitely scares a part of me, as it reminds me of the only tiny organ that is keeping me alive and the fragility…
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Grandmas Giving Up
We waste so much time trying to live lies because we are so afraid to feel and live the truths we have within us. We are so afraid of being honest with ourselves. I see…
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Terrible Dancers
We should relish the terrible dancers. The people who sing out of tune, those who write incorrectly, our friends who confess embarrassing secrets. They are creating something in this world. Perfection is not creation. Mistakes,…
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North Country Loons
Loons, the great birds of the north country. The ones who wake up at the crack of dawn to go fishing in the calm waters. The ones who sit outside for hours mesmerized by the…
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Hug
It’s like the sun, the moon, and the earth are always hugging us. The sun rises every morning, the moon’s always there even if you cannot see it, and the horizon of the earth always…
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Power, An Illusion
We often feel that the things we fear the most always have the most power over us. If we are afraid that something will come and hurt us, then we are giving it the ability…
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“Supposed” To Be
Maybe the reason why we always are searching for quick joys, fast fixes, reaching for sugary foods, or doing drugs is because we tell ourselves that we are not supposed to feel how we are…
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She’s New In Town
I’ve just arrived at the airport in New York. I’ve been traveling solo for five months, and, believe it or not, I’ve noticed that I’ve changed. No way! As I look at myself in the…
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Glass Skin & Inner Fire
Each person’s inner light should shine through them like their skin is a bright window made of glass. Like they’re radiating their light out into the world. But many times, relfection gets mistaken for shine.…
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Between Two Worlds
This period of humankind is especially hard because we are often conflicted between two worlds: science and spirituality. They both don’t have the answers. They are both manmade and, generally speaking, built mutually exclusive from…
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The Point To Life
There is no point to life. But yet, we are all connected. The trees to each other, us to the trees, us to each other. I have a family who created me, ancestors who unknowingly…
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Candid Pictures
Pictures are existential. Pictures are essential. When we pose for pictures, or edit them, or filter them, we are telling ourselves that we don’t want to see our actual selves, our natural selves. But our…
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Before Making Decisions…
Before you make a decision, ask yourself: Would I be doing this to become closer to an idealized version of myself? Or to become closer to my real, true self?
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Painful Lessons
Our bodies let our minds do whatever it wants. Our bodies are forever servants to the mind. And with this power, the mind will kill the body if the soul doesn’t teach it to be…
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Routines
After traveling for five months, sleeping in different beds, meeting all different people, and discovering new parts of my Self, I have had very little stability. The only stability I have had is my body,…
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The Only Rule In Relationships
Respect should be the only “rule” for a relationship. There shouldn’t be any “rules” for what words should be said or what actions should be done for the other. One shouldn’t consult expectations, fantasies, or…
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The Law of Least Effort
The law of least effort means that the maximum outcome presents itself when the least amount of thought is put into finding it. This law defies everything we are taught in society. We are taught…
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Finding Beauty
I vouch to myself to find beauty everywhere I’m at. Even if it wasn’t exactly where I wanted to be, I know there will be beauty there.
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Clichés
Why do people hate cliches? I just searched the internet for this very question. Apparently, some say that cliches generalize our specific human experiences. Cliches aren’t creative. Cliches swallow uniqueness. And maybe they do, in…
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Meeting New People
Meeting new people is like getting to tell your story over and over again. And when you are asked your story, you get to think about it and constantly question it and recreate it. You…
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Overthinking
Whenever we aren’t enjoying the moment or are unhappy we are probably overthinking. We should stop thinking, and do something that makes us feel more joy. Not more pleasure, but joy, because we have the…
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Masks
As I sit at this bar table, eating some super delicious pumpkin deep-fried fritters and reading Joseph Campbell, I’m noticing when I am overthinking. Such as how I just walked around for an hour, deciding…
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We Can’t Do It On Our Own
Let love in from others and from yourself because the universe, the divine, will make you and this world so incredibly beautiful if you trust that what it wants to give you will in fact…
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Over-Engineering
We over-engineer our lives. Our cars have too many buttons. Our houses have too many gadgets. We track too many things. Edit too many photos. When we over-engineer, we add more things that could go…
Ali Walks Around 