I see what I heard
Wind whistles through the mountains
The sound makes a scene
About the Creator
The Poem She Wrote
How 47 Words From a Stranger Rewrote My Story THE NAPKIN AT TABLE SEVEN ✍️ I was waitressing at a diner in Brooklyn, twenty-three years old, three months behind on rent, recently dumped via text message by a boyfriend who described me as "too much" which is a phrase that sounds specific but actually means nothing except that the speaker has decided you are not worth the effort of genuine feedback, and I was carrying plates of eggs and toast to table seven where a woman approximately seventy years old sat alone reading a poetry collection with her coffee and I envied her stillness, the way she occupied space without apology as though she had earned the right to sit quietly in a noisy diner and read poems without justifying her existence through productivity or performance, a right I had not yet discovered I also possessed ☕
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12 Life Lessons The Golden Girls Taught Us
Picture it: Miami, 1985. Four middle-aged actresses agree to play the characters of Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia who share a home in a TV sitcom called The Golden Girls, unaware at the time of the kind of impact the show would leave on its adoring fans. The show aired until 1992, ending with a one-season spinoff called Golden Palace. The seven years we were graced with The Golden Girls on our television screens made its mark. More than three decades after Susan Harris’ imagination sparked the creation of these iconic characters, fans from around the world still watch reruns of The Golden Girls, spend time discussing the show on social media in Facebook groups like The Golden Girls Fanatics, carry Sophia-inspired handbags and relate to the episodes in their daily lives.
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