Category: connection

So often we trust strangers. The normal people similar to us, living black coffee lives, running boring errands like buying milk or paying the electric bill; we trust these people all the time from our safety to our capabilities. We trust that strangers will stay in their lane when we pass them and not swerve [...]

Dedicated to anyone who searches for improving themselves, and to anyone who finds comfort in strange places. -SHP  Something unusual happened to Grace on day eighty-seven. The buckeye tree was in the same place, waiting, which had been the routine for eighty-six days. It had been in the same place then and hadn’t decided to pick [...]

There is no such thing as silence. Turn off everything in your house, sit there alone and you can still hear the wind outside and the buzz of electricity haunting your walls. Put a pillow over your head and you hear your blood thrumming in your ears. No fairy tale villain could ever command silence, [...]

Memories approach like sneaky thieves, stealing your thoughts and leaving different ones. Some are pleasant like walking past a roasting nut cart, filling your senses with cinnamon and buttery nutmeg and others unexpectedly sting you like picking up the wrong end of a toothpick. Full of memoir potential, a single table with an umbrella zealously [...]