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Daily Prompts: Are you being served?
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/daily-prompts/ I work in the customer service industry (cough cough) so I have a lot to say about the topic of service, mostly that it’s been lost in the shuffle of our self important, busy lives. I won’t share any particular good or bad experiences here but I will say that bad or lackluster service…
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Love, Loss and Adulthood
I wonder how long it will take for me to forget her?I remember the way her arms would wrap around me. As I grew taller our hugs changed, she would have to use my height to steady herbut she always enveloped me Now I’ve started to forget and remember.She smelled like home and took some of my…
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Work In Progress – Going Home
Tonight, I’m looking forward to going home; the place where my heart breathes. I will walk in and take deep breaths in every room so I can feel the nostalgia in the my bones. I will touch doors and chairs and enter rooms for the sake of touching and seeing what should be there. Every…
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Coping
I’m reading to cope, trying to find comfort in the books I read over and over. One quote I’ve been reading over and over again from one of my favorite authors: She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite…
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A Death in the Family
While the title sounds like a poorly casted 80s movie, it’s really my life. My grandmother passed, on Monday. I never took notice of how different it is for Caribbean people, culturally. We kept a Wake at my uncles’ house, that no one had to announce. After I heard, I started to prepare for the…
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The Night
Her kiss was the flavor of sin that tempted the light to fallBrown eyes devoid of liesShe beckons out of the darknessMirroring your true desires Staccato heart beat drumming in your earsTo see her is to pay reverence;Head bowedOn your kneesThe void in her absence amplified by the wholeness in her loveDeath was built to…
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On being sick
It sucks. *throws tissue* I’ve been sick for a bit over a week and I’m at the stage where my nose is raw, eyes are swollen and running and my chest feels like it’s caving in on itself. I haven’t worked a full day in a week and I’m quite frustrated and depressed since I…
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My Gluten Free Journey
A few months ago, after almost a year of suffering from cluster headaches, I was diagnosed with Celiac’s Disease. Celiac’s is an autoimmune disorder of the lower intestines where your body can not break down wheat gluten. The side effects I was experiencing for years unknowingly were: fatigue, chronic stomach issues (IBS like symptoms) and…
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Family Visits and Building Memories
I’ve been fortunate this year to reconnect with a lot of my family; my father’s side especially. Discovering that I had brothers and a sister were a shock but it has also been a pleasant transition. What’s really surprised me is that I’ve also been reconnecting with family members that I’ve known for a while…
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Sizing Chart shenanigans
Today the mission was simple; use my one hour lunch break to pick up the missing summer essentials that were so desperately needed for my July 4th celebrations. What happened? Went into a shop I like to pick up some shorts. Shorts are a main staple and if the 96 degree weather is any indication…
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