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Ninety Minutes. AI-Generated.
There is a particular kind of tired that doesn't show up on your face. It lives deeper than that — in the shoulders, in the jaw, in the way you move through a room like you're conserving something you're not sure you have enough of. I'd been carrying that kind of tired for the better part of a week by the time my husband came home from his work trip, and I want to be precise about what that week had looked like before I get to the part where I became the person in the wrong.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
Where Kindness Ends and Something Else Begins. AI-Generated.
We have never been difficult neighbours. Five years in the same block of townhouses, and I say that not as self-congratulation but as context. We keep to ourselves, maintain the property, pay what we owe, and have always made the effort to get along with the eleven households spread across the three subdivisions around us. My husband works regular hours. I'm a nurse on night shifts, which means I sleep at unusual times and have learned to do so through a fair amount of ambient noise. We are not precious people. We are not complainers. We built a quiet, functional life and assumed, without really thinking about it, that we were the kind of neighbours everyone hopes for.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
Babbling Dixie Part 2
A year and a half later, I had gone back to the scene of, “It never happened.” Driving a different vehicle because the other one never did fall into place. Memories of, never-happened, that somehow never left a mark. God is like that.
By Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle5 months ago in Journal
A Letter to the Neutral Bystander
Dear Friend, You often say that you prefer to stay away from all that political noise. When conversations at the dinner table or on social media shift toward social justice, human rights, or systemic inequality, you quietly step back. You proudly declare that you are neutral, that you believe in good vibes only, and that you prefer to focus on your personal growth, your career, and your mental peace. You believe that by not taking a side, you are avoiding conflict and keeping your heart pure.
By Arjun. S. Gaikwad5 months ago in Journal
Nature Vs Nurture Debate: Nurture Affects Cognitive Development As Compared To Nature
Nature vs nurture has a critical role in shaping how individuals think and perceive things in the environment. In this perspective, nature represents the behaviors that are inherited from the parent to the offspring while nurture refers to the environment in which a person has been brought up.
By Clinton Wanjala5 months ago in Journal
The Sweatshirt. AI-Generated.
She was wearing the kind of dress you choose on purpose. Ivory, backless, the sort of thing you save for a night that deserves it — and this one did. She was graduating high school. Her family had taken over the long table by the patio railing, and there were balloons, and someone had brought a card, and the whole arrangement had the loose, particular happiness of a celebration that's been anticipated for months.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
