Mary Grace Writing

Tag: simple thoughts

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Earth is home to many cycles. The water cycle, the air cycle, the earth cycle are among them. Systemes created to build, break down, reuse, and rebuild. All of that grinding, melting, molding, fusing, is science’s magic of making one thing into another. While it all follows a pattern, it all looks like chaos. Such…
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Six Word Story (41)

Water is one of earth’s natural mirrors and puddles, the perfect place to start an adventure. Do you view self reflection as an adventure? I would argue that you should. Taking a good look at ourselves is scary. Is there something there we don’t want to acknowledge? There are also many good things about ourselves…
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This world has broken my heart. So much discord, and lost faith. I turn about, not knowing who or what to trust. Broken trust is not a laughing matter. But I have hope. You see, I trust in a God that has made it his business to fix things, and they are always far more…
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Six Word Story (39)

Is it sinister? Or two sisters bearing their souls to one another?
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Purple Stain

This one shrivelled.That one plump.In a rush as I sort the circles. Pluck a stem,one is smashed,mold has grown.Remove before decay infeststhe rest. Tip toeing throughmy morning test of time economy. Juice runspurple and sweetness.Marking the edge of fingerprints. Box packedwith noon time edibles.Ready for the day.Wave goodbye.The purple stain remains. ©2021 Mary Grace van…
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Six Word Story (38)

They are small, they are fierce. Why do we underestimate them so? Why do we deny they are reflections of what still lives deep inside of every adult heart? Cherish those hearts, be they in the bodies of 2-year-olds, or in full-grown adults with all our learned coping mechanisms. It’s never too late to be…
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How do You Catch a Cloud

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? Or corner a thing that floats in wisps ethereal wings?
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Do you thrive in the quiet? Or in the none stop rush of the spinning world? Each element has its own worth, and we can find each within the other if we look closely. ©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef Photo sourced from unsplash.com
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It Would

It came skippingin exuberance unchecked.A child with something to say. It left,deflated.Dismissed by the one it would engage, and aged. ©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
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Even when the sky is overcast, a sunflower always knows where to look. I am envious of this nature. “How can you just KNOW?”“I just do.” A snippet of a conversation I have had on more than once occasion with someone close to me. How can you JUST know? It is a nature given to…
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