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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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“The Impossible Dream”
Do you want to know a fun fact? I have aphantasia. Isn’t that a delightful word? What it means is I have no ability to conjure a mental image. If someone says, “Close your eyes and picture an apple.” I’ve got nothing but black screen behind my eyes. When reading, people without aphantasia describe seeing…
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Dull Edges and Action
Armed with a carload of guns and a list of addresses for people who held differing views, he decided to resolve his internal discomfort by driving from address to address and pulling a trigger. It’s hard to understand how a human heart and mind can arrive at this kind of decision, let alone maintain an…
