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    Why I love Los Angeles

    Today feels wide open. I am sitting outside on a bench in the blowing breeze under a sparse tree. There is a bee floating around not too far from me and…

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    Windy Days

    On these gray and windy days I remember the Midwest where I am from. On these days in the Spring I would walk home from the bus stop down my little…

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    Making Peace, Making Wishes

    For a long time after I moved here I was lonely. I felt like I had no friends, or friends who couldn’t deal with the real me. I tried to constrict…

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    The Trees

    There is a song called “For Your Love.” This is how I feel about the trees in the Midwest winter. They are gray and black stick-like against a gray-white sky with…

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    First Pet

    Once, when I was very, very young, I remember winning a goldfish at the school fair. To win this fish, I had to throw a ping pong ball into one of…

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    A Good Friend

    I finally made a good friend here. Her name is Eco. We met because of horses; she rides too.  Nothing like what I used to do, but mellow and laid back.…

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    New Year’s Palace Daydream

    On New Year’s Eve I pretended I was in an Indian Palace in India- the Hotel Diggi Palace. In this palace I light candles and incense and pretend I am the…

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    rainy reverie

    I moved to Los Angeles but it is rainy and smeary. I feel comfortable here in the rain, like I could curl up, like the midwest where I’m from. In the…

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    I can’t choose

    I feel like I’m here to do something special, but I don’t know what is is yet. It’s driving me crazy! A lot of my friends know they want to be…