Month: November 2023

Nature, Stream of Thought

Surrogate

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I heard them coming before I saw them fly overhead, more serene in their calls than other flocks’ usual.

I was astonished to see a smaller goose flying amidst their v-stream, keeping a moderate pace with them – though it seemed its wiings were more quick-capable.

Perhaps the flock was less distressed, having taken on this extra traveler.

Or maybe its presence fit something they had been missing and needed.

Myths & Legends

Forgotten Memories

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When she had returned to elementary school after summer, rumors had spread there about her, as well, from the well-to-do families.

The teachers treated her with abruptness and cruelty, and she was often terrorized by the bathroom-stalking bullies.

With abuse also happening in her home while mother was away, it was with a thin grip that she held onto nature’s beauty.

Myths & Legends

In An Age Of Ignorance

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Before it became safe to expose generation’s atrocities, she happened upon what some of the adults were doing with the younger children.

Trying to help her peers got her outcast from community circles where they called her a liar and “wicked.”

The kids were warned she was pariah, and once-friends called her names at her passing.

Her grandparents fought being ostracized while her grandfather negotiated to keep his job and position.

She knew she had been right to protect the other young ones, but paid dearly for illumination.

She was pressured to say publicly she had made a mistake – yet instead accepted isolation as punishment.