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War on Christmas
I tried really hard to be a good little bleeding heart liberal and find empathy for the other side. Be sensitive to classism, they said. Think outside your echochamber social media bubble. We have to...
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Why I Am Not Marching
I am not marching because I was born in Mike Pence’s home state. I am not marching because my grandfather worked in politics and my grandmother raised six children. She never took a birth control pill...
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Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I haven’t seen you around, and you never replied to my texts. Pussycat, pussycat, where did you go? Are you feeling okay? Is there anything wrong? There,...
View Articleme myself and i
february. 1998. indiana. age 10, elementary school My name is Josi. I’m 10 years old. I’m friendly and kind. I’m also smart – 4.0. I have never gotten lower than a B+ on my report card. I love school,...
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july. 2007. indiana. age 19, diary who am i to say these things? have I changed so much that I find a man who loves me through it all and I tell him love is [not] all that matters ..then what does?...
View Articlewhat if she is wild?
Oh… but what if she is wild? What if she takes off her mascara at night tortured because she can’t find satisfaction in the ordinary? What if when you ask her to sit still it hurts because something in...
View Articlelove over fear
By my fifth birthday in July of 1993, I already knew how to fold a cardboard box closed, without the added cost of tape. On a rough count, I’ve moved almost as many times in my life as the number of...
View Articlehire me, i’m a good liar
Yesterday, I lost my temper with some tv producers. I am supposed to fly to LA in 2 days to film a daytime talkshow about authenticity. They sent me some borrowed words about my life and asked me to...
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GREY TO GREEN
You would think I tried to erase myself. But we’ll come back to that. I am supposed to tell you about the blog, and we have to chat about the weather first. Because really, there have only been two...
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DOLLHOUSE LOVE
One more time, we got this. Even without glasses, because eyesight is overrated and headphones help me more. And because I left them on the floor, fumbling in the forty degree dark, crawling to the...
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NO FURTHER PROMISES
Sometimes, though, I paint everything in buttery yellow. Golden vanilla curls, childhood mac and cheese, chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles on top, card games by the flickering fire. Punk chords...
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BUT MAYBE THEY DO
I am jealous of their commitment to the mediocre, and I imagine they do not have chaos in their cells.. READ FULL POST The post BUT MAYBE THEY DO appeared first on Josi Denise Parker.
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SKELETON KEYS
And when your arms are tired from carrying all that you do, and you just need a lullaby, find me. Tucked away in my imaginary attic, just a small amber square in the middle of the dark blue morning....
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WE CAN FIND
So it will be a mess, yes, but sometimes we can find the most spectacular things in the most unexpected syllables. READ FULL POST The post WE CAN FIND appeared first on Josi Denise Parker.
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TIME IS SOMETHING
..the pines offer reassurance, with their optimistic branches taller and stronger than us, that time is something we fucking made up. READ FULL POST The post TIME IS SOMETHING appeared first on Josi...
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LULLABY
You might find what you need, in my words, or in the way the wires in my nerves string thoughts together. I want you to analyze this messy mind and tell me about all the impossible things. You might...
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READY, DESPERATE EVEN
..a glimpse of that flame inside, only for a moment. Ready, desperate even. What if I burst and spill? What if I put my thoughts here? Can I trust you? READ FULL POST The post READY, DESPERATE EVEN...
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STRANGE TO SAY
..we sold the tv and everything else in a trailer park yard sale and traveled sixty five hundred miles, and I tied the knot in a teenage dream come true, two months prior to the deadliest shooting in...
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EVERYONE WHO WATCHES
..it seems quite possible that things have always been this way, and there were never mountains, and sunflowers have always been grey, and the clock and everyone who watches it may just stand still...
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WHEN YOU UNRAVEL
So much has changed though, and the world is a different place. And all day long, drums dance around my messy mind and now I don’t hear all the noise that I used to. Erasing myself was never the goal,...
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