Category Archives: Vulnerability

Doubling Down on Fear

Posted on April 11, 2024 by kyra333

I recently joined a writing group and had a turn to bring a project for feedback. It can be scary and vulnerable for anyone to solicit feedback from peers, at least it was for me. These peers are much more … Continue reading →

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Inside Out

Posted on February 14, 2024 by kyra333

Aging gracefully is pushed by advertisers as a gold standard  which they aim at Boomers, Gen Xers, and certainly catching the attention of nervous Millennials in its wake. The beauty, wellness, financial planning, insurance, including after care for pet, house plants, … Continue reading →

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Good Shit

Posted on September 14, 2023 by kyra333

What I didn’t understand until much later in life is all the shit is ultimately good shit. Bad things happen yes, but our growth from those things can be excellent fertilizer for change, for redemption, for later happiness. Tragedies are the seeds of resilience. Not all bad things garner these results, but many can. Continue reading →

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Namib Desert and Stressing Out

Posted on March 14, 2023 by kyra333

Waiting was not an easy feat. Staying calm in the storm of uncertainty, slipping in and out of trying to find a solution to a not yet known end result was crazy making. The added bonus to this roller coaster was struggling not to spiral down and catastrophizing menu of what could go wrong. Continue reading →

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Good Beginnings

Posted on February 15, 2023 by kyra333

What is a good beginning? It’s private, it’s slow, it’s a dawning of an idea, a change of mind, a different choice. It starts as an itch so slight as to think we have imagined this idea, impulse or shadow thought. Then it takes root, germinates, and slowly if not fussed with comes into a slight outwardly shift. Continue reading →

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Baby Corn and the Long Dark N

Posted on January 1, 2023 by kyra333

The conversation started with an update from my doctor about me over achieving my numbers on my cholesterol test and not in a good way. It seems no matter how little meat and dairy I eat, or how many beans … Continue reading →

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Do-Overs

Posted on June 21, 2022 by kyra333

There are important skills and practices we learn as children that are incredibly valuable. Some of those skills we continue to use into adulthood and some that should follow us, don’t. Continue reading →

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Perfect Enemy

Posted on May 12, 2022 by kyra333

Voltaire said, “perfect is the enemy of good.”  Yes, because perfect is a construct, it’s subjective, and again fiction… not unlike one size fits all. Continue reading →

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Candyland

Posted on April 14, 2022 by kyra333

In the face of the unimaginable, of disease, and questions of mortality things like whimsy, laughter and quiet love do alright. Continue reading →

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The Benefit of Giving and Receiving Thanks

Posted on November 10, 2021 by kyra333

This time of year, just before Thanksgiving, I am always thinking about writing thank you cards to those I love and appreciate. I think about writing a blog about giving thanks or gratitude but alas I am generally still in … Continue reading →

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