Worthy_The God and the Gardener_Mother Mary_An (Annotated) Guide to Finding Happiness
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Worthy
I’ve been in line since early this morning, awaiting the next airbus. Most of us congregate near the outdoor heaters, but once we learn a new shipment is arriving we know we need to move away from that warmth and into the crowd forming at the airfield. As we wait, my gaze travels to the electric fence that marks the perimeter of the camp, which is on the edge of town. On the other side of the fence is an isolated strip mall, abandoned now just like the other buildings in this part of the city. I can see what used to be a café, a tobacco shop, and Five Pandas, the Chinese restaurant where my h...
The God and the Gardener
“The thing people don’t get is that being God gets exhausting. Humans seem to want nothing more than to be near God, maybe even be God, but I don’t even want to be God.”The gardener furrowed his brows in response to the man in the ash tunic with a beard that looked like it housed bees. Who was this man, not only claiming to be God but complaining about it? All he wanted was to water the timid petunias peeking their heads into the world. They were his babies, along with the wistful anemones, flirty freesias and enigmatic hyacinths that graced the gardens, each a careful rolodex of his days. Oth...
Mother Mary
Mother Mary 2200 wordsJanet spent the week revisiting a past she could barely remember, filling in the blanks with the knowledge gained from being wrong. Her decisions were not made without trepidation, the knowledge that choices had consequences. She debated the intricacies of right and wrong, and the repercussions of becoming paralyzed by indecision. It was a fear her father taught, thatwww.onedoor.cc was insidious. It crept into your being, slowly but deliberately changing your ability to distill truth from fiction. He of course had his truth, o...
An (Annotated) Guide to Finding Happiness
Step 1: Spend time doing something you enjoy I wouldn’t have thought it would be so difficult for me to find something that I enjoy. For some people, this is a straightforward task: they find this pleasure in baking or gardening; painting or drawing; music or books. Since first reading this guide, I have waded through an ocean of half-finished cross stitches and unsolved sudokus to find the thing I truly enjoy. My guilty pleasure.The key word there being guilty.Step 2: Do some exercise This newfound hobby of mine requires surprisingly more strength than I had expected, so this second step also...