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Not So Yellow, Afterall
“So, you’re mildly depressed”, the doctor said after a brief questionnaire, and though tears welled up in my eyes, the diagnosis, so to speak, really shouldn’t have come as such a surprise. A pandemic was still keeping me in a state of limbo in terms of what I could and couldn’t do. The rights I…
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Meeting Myself: The Self Discovery Project
It all started with a question I posed to my mom… then to my friends… then to anyone who would listen: Do you know yourself? The answers can be generally summed up in the following: “Of course, I know myself, I’m me.” Everyone seemed so dang confident, so sure of who they were and it…
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How To Grow Up: Developing A Green Thumb For Life
There are time honored practices for anyone looking to acquire a green thumb: Provide the plant in question with the right amount of Water Sunlight Soil Clean air, and you’re good to go! But what about a green life? Or a yellow one? What’s the right amount of water for a life full of growth?…
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How to Love America
As a kid: I used to scramble up to my moms bedroom at the sounds of crackling in the sky. I’d pull up a chair to sit myself down right in front of the window and watch the fireworks explode across the Baltimore Sky. Giddy with anticipation and a slack jaw smile, that was the…
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Self Love Is Social Justice
Self love is social justice Self love is social justice Self love is social justice This is an idea I’ve been sitting on for a little while. At its most simple and brief, the notion is a marriage between the things that I’m most passionate about: Learning to be my best self Figuring out…
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EOP | Choose Joy
Let’s take a trip down memory lane: It was a random weekday, let’s call it Tuesday, and I was sitting on my big black futon in the living room gazing out of the floor to ceiling windows at my sun soaked porch thinking, “Why don’t I sit out there anymore?”. I had no real reason…
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Full Potential: 001
I once read that ideas belong to no one. Rather, they float around carelessly in the air just above our little human heads, waiting to be seen, seduced and lured into the waking world. If that’s the case, the good news is that I happen to be particularly good at stumbling upon ideas… …notably practiced…
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Once Upon a Time in Iceland
It was 10:00pm in Reykjavik in the late spring of 2018. The sun was still setting, much to the surprise of me and my new friend, a fellow guest at the hostel I had just checked into for the night. Coming directly off of a flight from London, via a pricey — but friendly —…
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T̶h̶e̶ ̶E̶n̶d̶? The Beginning.
Let me start at the moment that signified the end of an era for me: Losing Spotify Student. That’s right, last night I was charged $9.99 for Spotify, lost access to Hulu and realized that I am not in Kansas anymore. With Kansas being the lofty and relatively carefree student world of my youth, I,…