BLOG: Stories and Sleepless Thoughts
Missed by a hair
Today was one that makes you want to give up, curl yourself into a ball, throw a blanket over your head. Done. I've been feeling done this last 6 weeks. Hell, this last 6 years. But this last 6 weeks was the first time I've started letting things drop, just to see...
Haaaw-Oh?
Alfred answers the phone. Alfred: haaawww-Oh? Uncle: hello? Alfred: Haaaaw-Oh? Uncle: who's this? Alfred: this is Alfreee, who dis? Uncle: Oh hi Alfie, this is Uncle Shaune. How are you today? Alfred: I good, but where you are? Uncle: I'm at my house, where are you?...
When at the end, you cannot recall the beginning.
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Things that inspire you to reach out
One stranger who understands your experience exactly, will do for you what hundreds of close friends and family who don't understand cannot. It is the necessary palliative for the pain of stretching into change. It is the cool glass of water in Hell. - Laura McKowen,...
Real Jobs
Oliver: my life is SO HARD there's NOTHING TO DO Mum: nothing at all?! Oliver: no cause my life is horrible and I don't have enough stormtroopers LEGO and Daddy makes me do all his jobs!! Mum: all his jobs in Minecraft? Oliver: no his REAL JOBS Mum: oh my, yes that's...
Santa
Mum: and tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and then that means the day after is CHRISTMASOliver: but mum, is Santa actually real?Mum: he's real if you want him to beOliver: but is he?Mum: if you believe in him, then he actually is realOliver: (whispers) like actual...