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The Last Pages

 

Every wall is marked with the outline of someone I loved, leaning against the door frame, talking into the group that's hovering around the too-small kitchen while the oven warms us in a sauna. Every seat, someone’s seat, someone’s favorite,…

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The Path to Regret


Watch for release of the new single, Sound of Regret, this Friday, June 12.

Laying on my side, squeezing tight my extra pillow, while simultaneously squeezing my eyelids shut harder. I’m breathing shallow breaths, working hard to stay quiet and…

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Time Moves, The Sun Rises, No Feeling is Final

Three candles lit, how Trinitarian of me. You can take the girl out of church, but… well, you know. Music filling the house, familiar words floating through the air, found in hymnals, from the mouth of Jesus, floating through the…

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The Ceiling Won't Always Be Your Friend

Dearest One,

Good morning. Do you hear the ticking? I finally added batteries to that clock in the cubby. I find its sound comforting; weirdo, some say. 

You made it through another birthday and, boy, was that one a doozy.…

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On Observing the Falling Leaves of Autumn

 

Of what will I be in awe of right now, right here, sitting against a tree in Overton Park, dusk arriving, people leaving? How can we call this blanket of leaves so beautiful; how can it be? How can what…

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The Difficult Gift

This idea of the difficult gift came to me while on a run at Overton Park, on one of those “false Spring” days where all your hope returns after the Very Long Winter of January. I have spent all of

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