Blog Entries
This is a collection of prose entries, my thoughts and views on a WIDE variety of topics, more so than a daily/weekly “blog” of what’s going on in my life. Reading them in any sort of chronology is not really necessary unless it’s marked “Part 1” or something like that. Enjoy!
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calendarize – #SoCS
Why did someone feel the need to turn this noun into a verb when “PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR” worked just fine ever since we had… calendars?
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like butter – #SoCS
That wasn’t how the day was supposed to end…
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honesty – #SoCS
Honesty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from you.
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crying eyes cast downward
This canvas was not meant to be pierced.
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a lot of nerve – #SoCS
Different is good
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both/and – #SoCS
Today’s prompt looks like a choice of two options. We were simply given “above/below” and told to write a stream of consciousness (allowing for the correction of typos – thank goodness). Bonus points if I use both! Oh, and I will use both, because my stream of thought basically fits “Ben’s Basic Rule of Staying…
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Oh My Gosh, Does That Suck…
I can take criticism as well as the next guy.
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the end? – narcissi, revisited
The end was not what I had expected.
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Pokin’ and Prayin’ – #SoCS
If you Capitalize Random Words, they hold more God Power. Little known fact. You’re welcome.
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Still. Way. Too. Many. Limits.
White. European. Straight. Cisgendered. Wealthy. Males. For them – the sky’s the limit.
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Perplexing Theology Stress Disorder
I MUST BE DOING THIS WRONG.
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Opting In – #SoCS
I still didn’t read those pages of tiny font explaining my terms of acceptance…
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Stop With the Boxes
please, please, please – don’t try to put me in a box.
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Feeling the Feels
Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.
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Sleeper, Awake.
I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.
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SoCW
So, it’s another day where my poetry fails to flow, but instead of retreating to the handy haiku, I’ve decided to free-write for half an hour and not allow myself any edits. I’ll even screen shot where it shows how many times I edit after saving my drafts just to prove it to myself and…
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Breathing; space.
Working through mental illness is not about being clever. ~ In fact, it’s the opposite of clever. Sometimes you have to stop thinking in order to ever think clearly again.
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Epicenter-2007
It didn’t start there, and it would not end there, but I now recognize the events of that day as my life’s epicenter.
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emergence
How long can that caterpillar stay in chrysalis before it dies and can never emerge?
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Jagged Bones
I need you to see some flesh on the jagged bones of the life themes I’ve expressed in my poetry.
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