Monarca Rising

Tag: life

  • Choices

    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps…

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  • The Alchemy of Love

      A crown with divine (feminine) life ascending from it; thorns pushing up against three budding red roses inside the crown.  This is the visual I put together in my head to have inked onto my lower back today.  A representation of power, feminine beauty, pain, love, and life. The Alchemy of Love You come…

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  • Absurdity, Joy, Lucidity

    “Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity” -Albert Camus One fall evening a couple of years ago, my daughter was stressed out about her…

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  • The Past

    A photograph of my Grandmother, Juanita Concepcion Perez.  She was a beautiful, formidable woman.  I loved her fierce spirit and her spicy personality, hidden in her small frame. When she passed, I was just 18 weeks along with my first child.  She died at my mother’s house, with many loved ones surrounding her.  I looked…

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  • The Sweetness In Life

    I think of all the sweetness I have in my life that helps me stumble through it and I hope that I share enough of it because life is rather bitter without it. Sometimes the mother in me can see those who need it and do not even realize it. from: Sweetness By  Stephen Dunn…

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  • Always and Evermore

    Cancer is insidious.  It wants to thrive and remain and continue to haunt you like a bad dream.  I knew this back in August when I prayed in vain that her results would not be cancer.  It is mentally challenging in the first few years for a survivor, lucky that one is, to not dwell…

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  • Wonders Oct 16, 2014 7:43pm

    Life goes on.  Nevermind if there’s Ebola here and now it’s a problem we didn’t seem to care too much about before when it wasn’t one of “us” suffering from it and now everyone is suddenly hysterical.  Nevermind if there are dead zones in the oceans, but since we don’t see it for ourselves, it…

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