Tag: life
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Butterfly Words
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Words swirl around my head constantly. I rarely extract them, afraid of the uncertain consequences of others knowing what I really feel. The danger of expressing myself, of it being the wrong thing said the wrong way. I have a deep fear of being misunderstood. Of being punished, cruelly, immediately,…
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Pinch Me
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This morning, six weeks after moving to Germany — and after years of wanting this to be my reality — I marveled that I’m here. This happened. My husband and I came back a few days ago from a trip to see his family in Tunisia; though we saw ancient…
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(Un)Making a Home
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Familiarity is comfortable and change, no matter what it looks like, is unbearably hard. Earlier this month, I said goodbye to an apartment I loved deeply, a safe space that was home to me for longer than any other place before it. (And look at that light!) This is the…
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Doorways
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Time flies. Very soon, I’ll be living in Germany. I’ve spent the last several months purging, going through a lifetime of papers, art supplies, trinkets, and things put in closets years ago and long forgotten about.
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The Waiting Place
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Last year, in late January, I got married. This year, I spent the day alone. We’d been working on getting a visa for months, bogged down by bureaucracy, unexpected challenges, and moving goal posts. The embassy took my passport in September, and by January, the uncertainty of when I would…