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Kat’s and Barkus’s Wisdom Circus
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Gathering Murk
The psalms I trusted to still my spirit now dissipate into empty echoes that gnaw at the edges of silence.  Strength abandons me, and I...

Barkus
14 minutes ago1 min read
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Looking for Yerushalyim
3, 000 years with no place. Orbiting in the outer realm and reaches. Looking for his presence, looking for his protection, looking for...

Barkus
2 days ago1 min read
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Co-creators with God
We are co-creators with God—the last moment, this moment, and the moments to come. Each breath carries the residue of choices, every word...

Barkus
3 days ago1 min read
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To Mew or To Meow
Do I mew? Or do I meow? I’d like to think I mew and meow, but this answer does not suffice. The art of mewing is more advanced than to...

Milo the Mischievous Red
4 days ago1 min read
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Ode to Satan; Mourn to God
I get asked about it so often; it feels like a dream. No, I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Please stop asking. Some people say it...

Kat
4 days ago1 min read
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Impermanence is the only coworker who doesn’t call in sick!
Time, our dearly beloved landlord, charges rent in wrinkles and memory lapses, and doesn’t even offer a security deposit refund. We...

Barkus
4 days ago1 min read
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We are hungry ghosts
A variable-ratio positive reinforcement schedule rules the world and rules motivation in every respect. That’s why casinos glitter with...

Barkus
4 days ago1 min read
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Growth is humbling, tender, and invisible, but always inspiring.
I’m trying to better myself in all my areas: Body, Mind, Spirit, Finances, and Relationships. Not to become perfect, but to become whole....

Barkus
Apr 191 min read
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The paradox of love and cruelty…
We are all capable of great love and great cruelty—sometimes in the same breath. The line between mercy and malice is thinner than we...

Barkus
Apr 182 min read
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Post Truth Injection
There is a psychopathic epidemic dressed in patriotism and profit, a radicalized choir of certainty singing hymns to the new orthodoxy....

Barkus
Apr 131 min read
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The law of Rule
Power is a retinue. It moves with a procession, a tide of faces that shift and dissolve, each one carrying the weight of the last. It...

Barkus
Apr 131 min read
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Authenticity
I no longer craved the glow of constant happiness. I grew tired of performing positivity, of shining when I was crumbling inside. I...

Barkus
Apr 61 min read
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Death without dying
You don't have to die to be dead. I have mental, emotional, and spiritual funerals on a daily basis. Some mornings, I bury hope before my...

Barkus
Apr 51 min read
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Non Duality
We move through a world of opposites—light and dark, joy and sorrow, beginnings and endings—each defining the other, each giving shape to...

Barkus
Mar 301 min read
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Becoming nothing and everything at once
Dedicated to and inspired by Patti Smith. I spin through the chaos of thought, a cyclone of memories twisting into the unseen. I spiral...

Barkus
Mar 301 min read
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Breaking through the bondages of our collective and individual shame.
Beneath all masks and marrow, let us draw near to those of us tangled in chains no eye can trace. In the quiet ache of isolated...

Barkus
Mar 301 min read
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‘Mother’ of the Year
I don’t want to remember. I tried to let it all go long ago, but you just won’t let me forget. My memories of you soured since I was as...

Kat
Mar 241 min read
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My cat cry
A screech cuts through the hush of nobility, scratch marks left in the wake of mischief. Domination tastes like food devoured too...

Milo the Mischievous Red
Mar 231 min read
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Not arguing anymore
Older or wiser humans don’t argue anymore. They’ve learned that most battles are not worth the energy or the noise. They just smile...

Barkus
Mar 221 min read
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Misplaced blame
The fundamental attribution error lives in the quiet places where we forget each other’s storms. I saw your silence and called it...

Barkus
Mar 211 min read
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