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On being poor.

After reading Linda Tirado’s blog in the Huffington Post, “This is why poor people’s bad decisions make perfect sense,” I felt angry, understanding all too well. I’ve seen it and sporadically experienced it some way or another. Some, the rich, may never understand because the stories of the poor seem only to exist on wide-screen […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The ebb and flow.

Life is just like the ebb and flow of waters on a shore. It brings us things, takes them away and brings more back. It all comes and goes. Once we realize this, we become less fearful and more courageous.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The puzzle of life.

We often hope that as with puzzles, we can find and fit every piece perfectly, but most of the time we can’t. We hope to find those perfect pieces which don’t actually exist but in our idealistic minds.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

What I learned…

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Taming the alcoholic monster inside.

Before I quit drinking I thought I had a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde inhabiting my body. (I wasn’t alone). The “bad,” Mr. Hyde, was the result of my drinking and the real me, was the “good,” Dr. Jekyll. This way of thinking was my perfect excuse. “Oh! But I was drunk! I wasn’t myself!” […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Snapshots of another time.

Of late, snapshots of a time keep creeping up. They come to mind in flashes while I go through my day for no apparent reason. Snapshots that time won’t erase. A time of peace, newness and wonder. Those snapshots I shall keep.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Finding peace through pictures.

It’s true that a picture can capture what words can’t. I love browsing through pictures. At the end of a long day when I am too tired, too sad, or too anxious, I find solace and peace by browsing through photographs. I might type my mood in a search engine and find images that express […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The fear of letting go.

The attachments we form throughout our lives are hard to sever. Some we must keep, some we must let go of, but try as we might we can’t, at least emotionally. Letting go of someone is loss, and loss is one of the most difficult tasks our brain doesn’t seem very well equipped to handle.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Where did it all go? And was it worth it?

Give it time and you’ll often ask yourself where it all went. Was it real? Was it worth it? Was it a dream or a nightmare? In any case, time brings with it varying perspectives as we become more detached.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Change: the dread of the unknown.

We like our routines, they ground us, as boring as they might become at some point. They keep our lives neatly balanced. We know what to expect, we know the territory. Suddenly change springs and throws us off kilter. Some of us dread change because of the unknown territory and feel disoriented when our neat […]