Failing Forward – Harnessing the Lesson of Setback
If you’re on the East Coast, you’re no stranger to unpredictable weather. One day feels like spring, the next, winter returns. It’s a back-and-forth that mirrors life—how we move
Joy-Jayne
The Paradox of Blessings: Blessing and its Unexpected Challenges
Life has a subtle way of teaching us what we didn’t know we needed to learn. One of those lessons is this: blessings often arrive with unexpected challenges. What we once longed
A Glass Raised to the Unknown
You don’t meet whiskey— you collide with it.
No one tells you the first sip isn’t about taste.
It’s about threshold. It sears before it soothes,
humbles before it welcomes.
The Bird Came Today
The rain came mean, needling through the trees,
slipping into my collar, licking its way down my spine.
I let it take me.
The wooden bench beneath me groaned, heavy with rot,
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