Brittany Boles
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A Major Arcana Acute Sinusitis
This happens every time. It took me a while to notice the pattern, but now that I have, it’s impossible to ignore. In Tarot, we call it the Tower – when everything we’ve built catches fire and burns to the ground, crumbling in hot… Continue Reading “A Major Arcana Acute Sinusitis”
Like Something Else
Deep loneliness presentslike a symptomof something else:like depression or apathy,or something like lazinessor negativity or, maybe she doesn’t have social skills,or, something must be wrong with her,that she’s always alone or “stop feeling sorry for yourselfand justgo outside,join a gym,read a book,go to yoga… Continue Reading “Like Something Else”
Love’s Confusing Joy
They say to write about the joy. Rumi, especially, says that life is meant for “love’s confusing joy.” When I re-read, for the thousandth time, his words written back in the twelfth century, last night, in my own bed, these 760 years later, they… Continue Reading “Love’s Confusing Joy”
“Things I cannot know”
I thought that it was you,but I hardly know your name. Just the way the earth stood still,the way it hasn’t been the same. A thousand times at least,I thought that you would say Something like, “I felt it too –I feel it every… Continue Reading ““Things I cannot know””
On Wholeness, in Lonely Company
Is this it? Is this really all there is? I feel like the Supertramp himself when he made itto Alaska, foraging the final frontier,finding a great big empty bus to call his own – And then died there. “Happiness only realwhen shared,”he wrote. I… Continue Reading “On Wholeness, in Lonely Company”
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