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Tag: loneliness
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Saturday Supper
Food is love. When we moved to Texas a couple of years ago now, part of the motivation was coming into a community of friends that felt like family and were close enough to sit down and eat with from time to time. The group of folks who would become known as the North Texas…
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No Man is an Island…
I’ve written the last couple of days this week on the importance of social connection, love, and friendship. Love in the form of charity is a giving of oneself to others. The key to a lonely heart, opening it up as it were to human connection. This, we know from science, feeds not only…
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Lonely Birdhouse in My Soul
Now that song is going to be stuck in my head all day. I took a photo this spring, in one of the conservancy prairies around Dayton OH, and looking at the final edits got me thinking. Not about the song. No, I was thinking about loneliness, and friendship, and the connections every human needs…
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Social Creatures
Inside the human mind is a strange and wonderful place. Humans are social creatures: we are designed to support one another, not to exist alone. These last few months have brought this to the top of consciousness in a way I never expected. I spent this last weekend at a writer’s retreat. It was…
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Free Story: Girl Talk
One of these days… maybe this coming month, since I have been living at a flat run this last 6-7 weeks, I will compile and publish a collection of short stories and flash fiction. For years I thought I couldn’t write anything longer than a short, so I have probably a dozen rattling around in…