Tag: personal essay
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No Weddings and a Funeral
Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life, for it cannot exist without life. We continually die as time moves forward, with pieces of us sloughing off in favor of growth. I think life isn’t lived in fear of death, but rather walking along with death in a somewhat gracious…
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The Strangeness of Regret
Regret lives in the spaces of the choices we wish we made. Sometimes it is the understanding, a lesson learned too late, of the consequence of a path taken.
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The Practice
When you are a creative person — a writer, a painter, a woodcarver — you crave the very act itself. You need to do it; not unlike the need to eat or drink, more spiritual in a way, it remains as necessary. Rot and despair follow otherwise, only serving to further spin the doom loop.
Jeremy C Kester 