The Meaning of Life_Dissonance_Hibiscus_Canine Salvation
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The Meaning of Life
When I was little girl, I didn't want to be a firefighter because I considered that their big ladder on their big red truck was way too short to reach for the stars. When I was little, I wanted to become an astronaut. The vastness of space fascinated me, and from the age of five, I knew by heart the eight planets of the solar system, nine, if we counted Pluto. This obsession shaped my life until I was ten years old. My parents were very happy, because, thanks to this superb carrot (without the stick), they made me learn everything they wanted. " An astronaut must speak English ! " : At seven ...
Dissonance
“I’m sick and tired of all this deep crap.”Brianna wasn’t usually one for outbursts like this, but she had had enough. She turned her phone off and looked out the train window in disgust.“Seriously,” she muttered. “I have enough problems of my own without having to suffer through someone else’s. It’s not even that good, anyway.”Jungle-like vegetation gave way to a thriving metropolis outside the window, all of it flashing by.Virginia was a weird state that way. Office buildings and train tracks popped up and wound through dense forests so thick and wild that a person could get lost two steps i...
Hibiscus
Botany was a hobby that my mother had always pursued. In the spring, she’d spend her weekends tending to her vegetable garden for hours on end. My father would have to pry her from the soil just so that she would come and have dinner with us. In the winter, she would bring home armfuls of books from the local library devoted to flowers and trees. She’d read every last word before returning them the next week and checking out another stack.I guess she’s the reason I bought a hibiscus plant last year. I saw it on the windowsill of an almost unnoticeable flower shop which was squiwww.onedoor.ccshed between a S...
Canine Salvation
Liberation day has never been my friend. For starters, it’s never really meant much to me; I mean I’m as patriotic as the next guy but have never felt the need to exhibit it ostentatiously. Second, despite my best efforts, I’ve never actually found an annual liberation day tradition that doesn’t make me want to tie myself to an anchor and jump in the ocean. Also, the firework aspect of it is a real turnoff for me. I have no problem with people expressing themselves but setting off pyrotechnics in the sky is just a waste of time and money. Call me crazy but disturbing the neighbors (and especi...