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Just Breathe

LisaPullenKent — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:47:33 +0000

Re-posted from March 6, 2014 “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.I am, I am, I am.” Sylvia Plath There’s a stillness that descends on the hospital late at night, softening the harshness … Continue reading →

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In Her Image

LisaPullenKent — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 02:00:43 +0000

Sometimes I feel like a motherless childSometimes I feel like a motherless childSometimes I feel like a motherless childA long way from home African-American Spiritual I’m going to lose my mother. It’s an inevitability I never used to think about. … Continue reading →

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To Believe or Not to Believe

LisaPullenKent — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:26:37 +0000

“Mom, is Santa real?” My youngest shouts this over the top of Katy Perry’s “Roar” playing on the radio as I’m dodging traffic on Providence Road, trying to get to gymnastics. I shouldn’t be surprised that questions of this magnitude … Continue reading →

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Let It Go

LisaPullenKent — Fri, 02 May 2014 11:17:05 +0000

Before moving to Columbia, Missouri, spring break meant a week off school to hang around the house and catch up on projects. I soon learned this is not the case in the Midwest. In CoMo, it’s ‘hasta la vista, baby,’ … Continue reading →

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The Light Between Us

LisaPullenKent — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:42:25 +0000

One love, one blood, one life.You got to do what you should.One life with each other, Sisters and Brothers.One life, but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other. One, U2 She doesn’t even know … Continue reading →

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Just Like That

LisaPullenKent — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:40:50 +0000

Aaaaaaand just like that, Christmas is over. The preparation, the anticipation, the actualization; come and gone for another year. My beautiful live tree adorned in sparkling red and gold is dead, morphed into an endearing Dr. Suess caricature; its pliant … Continue reading →

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The Only Way Out is Through

LisaPullenKent — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:29:01 +0000

Grief lives in our house. Among the furniture, between the windows and the walls, it sits, thick and unmoving. Grief rides heavy on my chest. I can’t get a good, deep breath these days. It weighs down my husband’s shoulders and molds his features. Grief seeps into our nights of restless sleep and dreams of forgetting, of waking, and then remembering. Continue reading →

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Leap From the Nest

LisaPullenKent — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:19:49 +0000

Where are you going, my little one, little one,Where are you going, my baby, my own?Turn around and you’re two, turn around and you’re four,Turn around and you’re a young girl going out of my door. Malvina Reynolds and Alan … Continue reading →

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