Chaos on Shine

Brat House.

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by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Two Cents on Working Motherhood)

When I was 11 I started my babysitting career. I earned 75 cents an hour. I was unusually responsible for my age…

Lady at the Jewelry Store

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Dainty

There was once a guy who suffered from cancer... a cancer that can't be treated. He was in his 30’s and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he…

Let Dust Bunnies Lie.

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A REAL HEART

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, and is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act…

ALONE

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Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

It had been raining for…

MOTHER AND SON

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She looked at the photograph of her son. He would always be seven years old, tow haired and missing two front teeth. Grasping the framed photo tighter in her quivering hands, so tight that the corners of the brass colored left impressions in her flesh, she looked at the American flag covered…

There was a Man Who Wanted To Achieve Everything in Life

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Once upon a time, there lived a man who wanted to achieve everything he was capable of achieving. He was obsessed with this desire. He ate, slept, and walked with one and only dream: to die, having accomplished every single thing he was able to accomplish.

There were so many things he could…

Back to School Basketcase.

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by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Mommy Track'd - Two Cents on Working Motherhood)

As much as I grow wistful as summer ends, like most moms, I secretly look forward to a return to the peaceful…

when the mind is a bottomless pool of incessant chatter

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You search your whole life searching for "THE ONE" the one that you will grow old with, the one that will be your best friend whom you can share your deepest and darkest secrets with, the one who will be your knight in shining armour who will sweep you off your feet and ride you to the…