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Category: Rene Denfeld

Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking–if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

believe, big, tiny

Time is measured in meaning

But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.

loneliness, love

Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

dissociation, trauma

Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

aloneness, community, isolation

No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

lost, love, runaway

Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree – those who think ideas are like food they can taste and spit out if they don’t like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won’t leave. Until you do something about it.

Shame was a peculiar beast, Naomi knew. She suspected everyone had it: the dragon they wanted to slay. But for her it was different. Naomi wanted to bathe in it, to stand under its waterfall and come out blessed.

(She) didn’t believe in resilience. She believed in imagination.

imagination, survival, thriving

This is a place of true imagination.

How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn’t. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth. That’s why it’s so heavy.