Lossent Blog
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Authentic
I entered an Adult Writing Contest promoted by the local library a few months ago (I didn’t win, so I will publish it here now.) I considered writing in the poetry category because that’s always been fun for me, and one morning instead of picking up my journal to write I grabbed a blank pad
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Independence
With all the words floating around in my head, as much as I wanted to avoid it, independence seemed like the most appropriate single-word blog title this month. Not in any political sense, of course, but purely coincidental looking through a personal self-governance lens. If you’ve been socially conditioned to follow the flock (with work
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Compassion
Compassion: sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it. Merriam-Webster 2025, online dictionary I was once told by an elementary school English teacher to never continue reading if I didn’t know the meaning of one word–get a dictionary, find the word, spell it, pronounce it, learn the word, review it again,
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Raining
We are having the first rain in over 200 days in Las Vegas–with light but steady drops falling for the past hour, unlike the hot and heavy downpours in Tallahassee every 20 minutes–yet there is still a cleansing happening here. Sitting on the covered porch swing this morning, enjoying nature’s show, I was struck by