We all live in a tangled world, with tangled lives and tangles memories, tangled up in worries thick with the tangles of useless things. These knots crush against my chest with a fervor matched by malevolent movie villains.
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Sitting there in the starlight, a whisper of breath in the air, a hint of night on her tongue, she steals my thoughts. In the deep places of her eyes and the moonlight threaded through her hair, she paints me worlds I'd never dreamed of exploring until that moment.
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Epic sunrise shots and Instagram stories never start from the summit. They start with waking up, they start with sweat and burning muscles, they start with late nights and cold hangs on the side of mountains, they start with passion and high expectations...
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She slid through the water like a wraith, silent and staring into the rain. In the calm of moments between water droplets cascading down her face, her eyes met mine, and the world around me stopped.
I wait for broken sunsets and broken smiles to take me home. I wait for colors to fight each other on the darkened horizon. I wait for the cool of evening when the world is bathed in shadow. I wait for a moment alone.
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Sunlight drifted like cobwebs in the air, filtering through the green of living things. It turned the forest floor into a patchwork of golden light, setting the ferns aglow.
We all relish the wind rushing through our hair on mountaintops, watching sunlight fade into the layers of mountains around us. We can feel it in our bones, that need to be somewhere else, that need to escape.
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The sun shook me awake, rolling me over before my alarm. Throwing off my too warm blankets, the first thing I grabbed was the last thing I should have.
The sky warred against the radiation in the air. They fought each other in clashing shapes and violent colors, bleeding out over the haze of smog and heat that had begun to settle over the ground.
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I woke up with the sun, when the air was still cold enough to send shivers up my spine.
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We are infatuated with white noise, we let it fill our lives with static so we don't have to face the silence.
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I'm uncomfortable sharing certain works with people, but there is a time to grow and a time to learn. I've never been much of a poet, so here's to taking that next step...
Worry pulls at my gut, mixing my emotions with the slow, grinding wheels of change. It’s exhausting, waking up in the mornings, the thoughts in my head stoking the coals of anxiety that murmur happily in my chest.
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The difficult thing about being an artist is that your best work comes from when you put a little bit of yourself into it. A smidgen of curiosity, a whale of anxiety, a dollop of wonder, a bucket load of passion, loss, love, heartbreak, your drive to create, throw it all in the mix.
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The stars were beginning to bloom into existence as I drove north, despite the wind howling cold and dark against my car, the night was quiet. I turned music on loud to keep the silence at bay and kept driving.
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Lights of blue and green caressed her cheek, bathing her skin in an overpowering glow of neon. I ducked behind
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A planned sunrise hike turned into an early morning drive to the Adirondacks, and a few last minute Instagram DMs found me a crew and a plan to hike Big Slide, an ADK High Peak.
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather...
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Some moments, when snow is filtering down from the sky, and the cold is bitter beyond brick walls, you meet up with friends for photo shoots in Troy coffee shops.
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I’ve always been enamored by lost places. I step into them and drift away, watching golden light stream through treetops, quiet and listening to the sounds of the world.
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