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A Necessary Corrective
It’s Contagious… Imagine yourself walking down a wooded path. You are contentedly listening to a podcast, fully immersed in your own little world, and from a distance, you notice an individual who is staring up into the trees. They are perfectly still, focused and appear determined in their level of attention. Suddenly, you notice your…
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Before Becoming
“I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…
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Seeing Red
I am heartbroken…. I have called Minnesota “home” my entire life. And there is something remarkably strange about knowing your life is occurring in a place and time that will one day be depicted within history books. Some days I wake up to a silence that holds all the promise and possibility of normalcy, and…
