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The Unsent Letter
Writing to Someone Who Will Never Read It Changed My Life THE WEIGHT OF UNSPOKEN WORDS 😔 For eleven years I carried the weight of things I never said to my father who walked out of our family when I was twelve years old and who I had not spoken to since because he disappeared so completely that finding him would have required a private investigator and an emotional investment I could not justify in someone who had demonstrated through his absence that he did not want to be found, and the things I needed to say, the anger and the grief and the confusion and the desperate unanswerable question of why he left and whether it was my fault, sat in my chest like stones that I carried everywhere and that made everything heavier including relationships that should have been light and opportunities that should have been exciting and moments that should have been joyful but that were always tinged with the background radiation of abandonment that colored everything without ever being directly addressed 💔
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Journal
365 Days of Writing
The Minimalist Journaling Practice That Rewired My Thinking DAY ONE: THE EXPERIMENT BEGINS 📝 On January first I committed to the smallest possible journaling practice: one sentence per day, just one, written in a physical notebook before bed, describing the single most important thing that happened or that I felt or that I learned that day, and this commitment which seemed almost insultingly simple compared to the elaborate morning pages and gratitude journals and bullet journals I had attempted and abandoned over the years was deliberately designed to be so small that I could not fail at it, because my history with journaling was a graveyard of ambitious systems that lasted two weeks before the effort required exceeded my discipline and the blank pages became accusations of inadequacy rather than invitations to reflection 😅
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Journal
“The Crypted Path of the Druids.”
Within the eerie setting of a crypt, this story artfully interweaves threads of mystery and the supernatural, all while featuring a deeply unsettling ghost that contributes to its atmospheric dread.
By Pseudonym “Kathy,” though my legal name is Chantel.3 days ago in Journal
Don’t Buy a Fire Extinguisher Until You Read This (Best Places Revealed)
Most people don’t think about fire safety until it’s too late. A small kitchen flare up, an electrical spark or a sudden short circuit. These are everyday risks that can turn serious within seconds. When that moment comes, having the right fire extinguisher not just any, can make all the difference.
By Deborah Larson3 days ago in Journal
