Honesty changes everything, but its hard to see when we refuse to look. Anger and resentment steal our hours when we’re trapped inside our fears. Friendship matters. Appearances don’t. Misguided judgments are as useless as the imaginary ideals we impose on others. Chiseling a proper likeness from marble is still working with stone. I used to ask […]
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The heart does what it wants. The earth does too. The future won’t remember. Tesla created wireless power in Colorado Springs in 1899. The heart does what it wants. The earth does too. The future won’t remember.
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Sometimes, I can hear my plants when I’m away. They let me know when they miss me. And I miss them. We’re part of each other. They’re very patient with me, and they’re good listeners. They’re quiet and strong and beautiful, and each one has its own distinct personality, perfect company.
Art Keane finished calculating the monthly budget and wondered how he was going to tell his family there would be no vacation that year. It was Saturday, and he hadn’t had a day off in months, much less a few hours to relax and think about anything other than financial pressures. Exhausted and secretly afraid
Sandra Knauf has worn many hats in her garden writing career—she’s been a “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her work has appeared nationally in publications that include GreenPrints and Mary Janes Farm; she’s shared her work locally here on USR and on Colorado Springs’s NPR affiliate radio station KRCC. In 2011, she
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Random moments never lost, a whisper clear that speaks delight says, “Come enjoy the sanctity of selfless union fused in light.” A laugh, a scream, a rush of lust, a gentle touch when tears do stream, they’re all so real inside love’s mind, yet still the things we always dream. We take this world, so