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Peeling the Veils of Trauma from Our Eyes

“It did not, at that moment, occur to her even to doubt that if such things existed they would be ...

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Leaning on My Ancestors

Enough. Enough. Enough. I was DONE. Finally, I reached out to Facebook friends, asking for their favorite quotes on hope ...

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Beauty in the Face of Hardship: Shanti’s Miracle in Nepal

LIVEdammit was created to celebrate and share tools of resilience—the practices and insights that help our writers move through trauma, ...

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offline

  I need the warm curl of fingers around a pen the brush of hand across paper scratch of a ...

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Thanks Giving

A bow to you, my friends of fur and feathers you bearers of witness to sentience in the four-legged winged ...

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Fox Medicine

sister fox fleeing through forestland (it’s All so vast over- whelming roots branches sweeping ground touching sky) preying upon/preyed upon ...

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A Cappella

I wrote this at the end of my son’s senior year of college, five months after my husband’s passing. Towering ...

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Coupling

“…whether it is husband and wife coupling in their love and birthing a child; whether it is a widow coupling ...

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The End of Euphememory

stuffed like dolls like taxidermied heads like blackmailers’ file drawers with fascial paper crinkled with jugular ink a rubbermaid bin ...

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raw

if the news were a movie and i a child watching i’d be asking mommy can we go home now? ...

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