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Determining Whether Things Scar You Enough to Push Forward
Leave a commentOctober 1, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
When life is throwing lemons at you and you were just doing your best with an open heart it …
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Tooter
Leave a commentSeptember 25, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
Unbelievable, but her name was Tooter. I have no idea where this came from. I think about her all the …
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“The Grapes Of My Body Can Only Become Wine” by Rumi
Leave a commentSeptember 16, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
(Translation by Andrew Harvey) The grapes of my body can only become wineAfter the winemaker tramples me.I surrender …
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Expiration Date
Leave a commentAugust 11, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
I think one of the most tragic habits we carry as people is to carry expectations of infinity for …
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What I Want From You But I Can’t Have
Leave a commentApril 4, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
What I want from you is your leg tangled in mine and your fingers wrapped in my hair and …
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The Not Enough Blah Blah Blah
Leave a commentApril 1, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
You know the drill. This is the part about how it is the journey and not the destination. How …
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“Chambers”
Leave a commentMarch 31, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
There are too many locked chambers in my chest With no key How do you get in When I …
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Holding Pattern
Leave a commentFebruary 27, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
There are many great tragedies. They take many forms, and you can point them out because some of them …
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A Story That’s True and Produces Untruths
Leave a commentFebruary 7, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
Dallas, early 1980s. The biggest thing from a texture standpoint was the carpet. It was shag, and so the …
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Namesake
Leave a commentJanuary 25, 2014 by mycountryisthewholeworld
Happy Birthday to Virginia Woolf! One of her most famous quotes is the inspiration for the name of my blog: …
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