Tag: Finding Peace
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Finding Peace
Zachary JacobsSan Francisco, California, US The ocean wind gusts,heady and thick,chapped lips speckledwith briny grit.Gulls yammer in protest of the breeze,fits of throaty birdsongamid the whisper of the sea.She sits.Sand conforms lovingly to her hips,toes wriggling in its cool embrace,as the sun succumbs to the horizon,its warmth, long forgotten,slurped up greedily by time,relentless,and fleeting as…
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Turning points
Loretta S. DownsChicago, Illinois, USA My mother’s end-of-life was 15 years long. It began the day my father died and she became dependent upon her children to fill the roles he had played throughout their 61-year marriage. We managed relatively well, and her health continued to be good for nearly seven years. By the time…