short realism – Page 3 – Mary Grace Writing

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Sundown, a time of glorious beauty. An ending. Endings can feel so scary, final, even deflating. But they are also a time of transition. Where one thing ends, something else begins. I wonder if that is why God placed so many circular patterns within creation. To give humanity hope that where we end, he continues.…
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Some say Mother Earth and Father Sun. If that is so, then I see Earth as the flirtatious one. She dances through the nether in living finery of every shade. I wonder what the rest of the galaxy thinks of her? She is far from the most powerful. But she is a home, a place…
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Out of the sustaining cycles of life, the water cycle is one of my favorites to think about. Every drop in the ocean would once have been rain that every flip of a fin stirs, and every current shares with the whole earth. The beauty of our word is memorizing. I see intent and intricate…
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There is a beauty like no other when it rains…
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Do you know the ache of honest work? The burn of weary feet?
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I remember my red balloon.
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We have learned to fear silence.
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Delicate. fragmenting under pressure.
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For a while they hold fast, grow, preparing for the fall. A fall that’s inevitable.
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Young, still growing, still learning, still gaining strength. We call it a bud, but it is still a flower.
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