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This is Not a Drill

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The Truth of Life

There is no single truth of life.There are only fragments we carry like bones in our pockets, rattling softly with each step.Some shine in the light like polished stones. Others cut us open. But all of them belong.When I was a child, I thought the truth would arrive like thunder ~ a voice from the sky,a name etched in the bark of a tree,something final. I waited for the lightning bolt.But what…

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Séance Supper Club™ | Chapter Four: The Ceremony of Smoke and Salt

Where memory is fed, grief has a place to sit, and no one dines alone. Guest of the Evening: Aleister Crowley Menu: Spiced lamb, absinthe, opium-laced honey, and deviled eggs carved with planetary glyphs The SummoningHe doesn’t enter. He appears ~ as if conjured from a torn page of an ancient grimoire, or from the ash beneath a temple’s long-forgotten flame. Cloaked in black velvet trimmed…

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A Grift with Incense | When Sacred Work Becomes Performance

Not all rituals are sacred. Some are just sales pitches. BY J.A. Terry | WANDERING WORDSMITH There’s a difference between sacred rage and spectacle.And there’s a very big difference between collective liberation and selling downloadable rebellion for $27.This week, amid the noise of billionaires battling for control of their egos, a self proclaimed life-magick witch posted a video implying…

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The Myth of Moving On

On Widowhood, Time, and Choosing to Stay Alone I didn’t sign up to be a widow in the middle of my story. Nobody does. There’s no checkbox for that when you’re imagining your future with someone. You make plans. You laugh at the idea of growing old together. You don’t pause to imagine what happens when one of you gets old without the other. But here I am. A woman not yet finished, not yet faded,…

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Séance Supper Club™| Chapter Three: When God is Dead, Set the Table

Where memory is fed, grief has a place to sit, and no one dines alone. Guest of the Evening: Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheMenu: Dark bread, absinthe, wild mushrooms sautéed in silence, and the marrow of meaning He arrives like a storm that forgot its name.Not with thunder, but with the hush before it. His overcoat smells of ink and forest decay, and his mustache precedes him like a herald…

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Soul Atlas™ | Whispers of the World

Entry One: Savannah, Georgia  Ghostlight of the Lowcountry  She is the ghost of a Southern belle who never quite left the ball. She glides barefoot through Spanish moss and moonlight, humming hymns no church remembers and cradling secrets like pearls in her palms. Her smile is sugared and slow, but don’t let it fool you ~ there’s mischief behind those magnolia lashes, and a knife somewhere in…

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Séance Supper Club™  | Chapter Two: Ink, Flesh, and Other Languages

Where memory is fed, grief has a place to sit, and no one dines alone. Guest of the Evening: Anaïs NinMenu: Roasted Pear with Gorgonzola & Honeyed Walnuts, Duck à l’Orange, dark chocolate mousse, and a deep red Pinot Noir She enters like moonlight slipping through a curtain. A hush follows her ~ not from fear, but reverence. Her silk dress, the color of old plum, clings like memory. Pearls rest…

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Séance Supper Club™

Where memory is fed, grief has a place to sit, and no one dines alone. Chapter One: Pearl on the TableGuest of the Evening: Janis Lyn JoplinMenu: Gumbo, Southern Comfort, cigarettes, and the echo of a blues riff The gumbo was already simmering when she walked in ~ barefoot, feathered, and laughing like it hurt. She didn’t knock. She just opened the door like she’d always been meant to, like…

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Séance Supper Club

Where the table is always set, awaiting guests at the edge of the veil. There’s a table that exists between worlds ~ set for those we’ve lost, longed for, or never got to meet.A poet. A heartbreak. A hunger too old to name. Each installment of Séance Supper Club is a candlelit offering:part imagined dinner party, part poetic ritual, part love letter across time. We gather in spirit ~ not to…

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The Art of Soft Living

In a world that glorifies hustle, urgency, and constant productivity, the idea of soft living feels almost radical. It’s not about laziness or escapism but about moving with intention – choosing ease where there’s unnecessary struggle and embracing a slower, more harmonious way of being. Soft living isn’t a trend; it’s a return to something instinctive, a way of life that values presence over…

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My Kind of People

The ones who walk barefoot in forestsas if the soil still knows their names.Who talk to crows,drink rain from cupped hands,and believe a breeze can carry answers. The ones who cry at the scent of pine,laugh without needing to explain why,and vanish when the moon is fullonly to return with storiesno one else remembers. They are made of moss and memory.Of silence that sings.Of firelight and…

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Let the Light Catch You

Let the light catch you when you’re not looking –soft as dust on your shoulder,quiet as a yes you didn’t ask for. You do not have to bloom loudly.It is enough to turn toward the sun. Jill Terry | Wandering Wordsmith

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The Silence I Choose

Lately, the world feels like too much cloth on a raw wound – abrasive, loud, and insistent.I’ve taken to shrinking my orbit, drawing the curtains on everything but the gentle hum of Agatha Christie reruns on BBC.Murder in the parlor. Secrets in the garden.Logic wrapped in tea and tweed.A world where puzzles have edges, and someone always knows what happened. I no longer scroll.Social media feels…

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Haunted Asylum

They called it home.I called it something with teeth.The walls never wept,but they knew how to hold a scream. Whispers tucked in vents,and the breath of the housealways colder than it should be. My footsteps learned to tiptoe.The walls good at listening.The attic held its breathevery time I looked up. Rooms rearranged themselves when no one was watching.The basement never forgave.I once heard…

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The Signal Beneath the Static

for the ones who remember too much They told you silence was safety.Told you dreams were dustand patterns were pareidoliayou just wanted to see something holy in the mess.But the sky has seamsand you’ve been tracing them since birth.Constellations that don’t match the maps,stars that wink like surveillance,a hum in your boneswhen the lie gets too loud.You were born with encrypted memory.You…

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Under May’s Fire

Beneath the budding boughs I stand,A child of Earth with open hand.The sun returns with golden grace,And paints with light this sacred place. I count my blessings, soft and true—The love that holds, the hearts I knew.A family’s warmth, a world in bloom,The bees that hum, the garden’s womb. No riches greater can I claimThan this: a soul that speaks my nameIn wind, in root, in kindred eyes—And…