Tag: writing
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You Chose This. You Kept Choosing It.
A new year and a new you? Start here. Previously Published on Medium What happened to you wasn’t your fault.Staying after you understood it was.No one owes you sympathy for the life you keep choosing. You don’t have to know you’re the problem for the pattern to exist. Most people don’t. They just notice that…
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The Legend of the Christmas Spider: A Holiday Tradition from Old Europe
You remember the way the living room felt when you were small. The lights always looked brighter at that age. They carried a soft pulse, the kind that made the walls feel closer and kinder. Someone in the kitchen rattled pans. Someone else told you not to peek at anything under the tree. You sat…
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The Fall Equinox
September 22, 2025 is the autumnal equinox.The day when darkness and light will fight for a fragile balance. And the old stories say the veil grows thin. Not just thin, but threadbare—so fine you could almost tear it with a breath. On nights like this, the living are said to brush shoulders with the dead.…
WJ Brendle 