lynnette hafken

I cannot share the miles long bulleted list, as I have unsubscribed and blocked this publication. I don't care to read it anymore. Instead, I am subscribing to a new journal called I Am Enough. It’s published in my head, and while I’d like subscribers, I only have a handful so far. A Wise Person Once Told Me That Passive Aggressiveness Is Just Communication Even if you don't like the framing, you can still try to understand and respond to the message. I decided to use this paradigm. Instead...

Concentric Circles of Care — The hand's position over the ripple calls to mind Adam's as God reaches for him, in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarotti, 1511 AD, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City Many People Believe They Were Put on Earth for a Reason My reason has changed over time. I have had the following purposes: to learn as much as I can; to be a good daughter and sister; to marry my soulmate and become a mother; to seek happiness; to relieve...

Sometimes there’s no explosion, just radiation. Nuclear radiation breaks chemical bonds, melts the thickest of skins, and when mixed with airborne dust, causes the landscape to freeze in a manmade winter. Eventually the sun will come out, but who knows when that will be? All the field can do is wait. It waits. It waits a long time. Someday the sun might shine on a dormant seed, and it would warm and sprout. The seed cannot bring about sunshine or rain by itself, no matter how it may yearn....