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Maniacally Hopeful
I walked back down the hill and watched as a huge morpho butterfly fluttered by me, its massive iridescent blue wings glinting in the...

Emmy Pickering
Dec 28, 20215 min read
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Harder Than It Looks
Fast forward nearly 6 weeks into this journey and I have yet to take that breath. That’s not entirely true, I have experienced moments of...

Emmy Pickering
Nov 30, 20214 min read
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Answering The Call
But wherever you go, there you are. Have you heard that expression? Though our geographical location has changed by some 4000 miles south...

Emmy Pickering
Nov 2, 20215 min read
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Tug of War
Imagine yourself at a game of tug of war. See yourself, which side you’re on. Feel the rope twisting around your hands, the weight of it,...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 13, 20216 min read
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Turtle Wisdom
My mom takes daily walks at the river by her house. There is a turtle conservation project and over time my mom has been witness to some...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 28, 20216 min read
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The Porch
Enjoy a little fiction this month! They live in the screened in porch all summer long, particularly on these hot days when the ancient...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 29, 20219 min read
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Too Good To Be True
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE; The saying itself denotes that something that is good cannot equal truth, doesn’t it? Or that we don’t believe that...

Emmy Pickering
May 26, 20216 min read
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It Hurts
I remember once when I got my two dollar allowance (remember two dollar bills?!) and I promptly gave it to a man begging on the street....

Emmy Pickering
Apr 28, 20216 min read
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DEAR BODY
The alternative title for this was: “How’s your nervous system? Pretty fucking fucked I’ll bet!” I just wasn’t sure if that was coming on...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 31, 20215 min read
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On Purpose
We forget that we are the only ones who can truly know our experience, the manual can’t apply to you because it wasn’t written about you....

Emmy Pickering
Feb 24, 20216 min read
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Hold The Line
I recognize in myself that I tend to want to live in fairy tales, I want to read them and I want to write them. I sat down many times...

Emmy Pickering
Jan 27, 20219 min read
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2020 Vision
2020 gotcha like? 2020 vision; It’s almost too easy to use that term this year but boy does it feel appropriate. Just over a year ago I...

Emmy Pickering
Dec 30, 202010 min read
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