The Spiritual Torchbearer Who Forgot to Laugh

She was fasting for truthwhile they were splashing in the river on Sunday mornings.She was memorizing scripture all day while they were licking honey off their fingers,sticky with life. She guarded the sacred scrolls,wrote doctrines on silence,burned incense at dawnwhile someone down the hillwas laughing so hardthey snorted tea through their nose. She bowed in

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Composting to Make Gold

You are like the Earth. A sacred, sentient groundwhere anything—shame, fear, overindulgence, ancestral weight—can fall into youand be compostedinto richness, warmth, wisdom, and life. Not by trying to fix,but by allowing everything to land. Just as the forest floor welcomes every leaf,every death,every dropping—and slowly, softly, turns it allinto nourishment—so can you. You don’t have

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Taste the Fire

When I reach to fill the void,my body meets me with a voice—low, certain, not unkind. “Not like that,” she says.“No more covering me.No more mistaking numbness for peace.No more pretending to feed what you won’t feel.” She does not scold.She does not shame.She stands in her fireand waits for my truth. So now—when that

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