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Bringing in Flowers
2025-07-18 11:00 UTC by Corey

My mom has such a quiet way.
She notices the small things—
a flower just opening, a stem leaning too far, a bloom past its prime but still with grace.
She gathers a few blooms, never many.
Whatever her garden offers.
A sprig of lavender.
A daisy.
Sometimes mint.
She places them in a little old bottle, places it just...

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Blackberry Days
2025-07-17 11:00 UTC by Corey

Coming home is a quiet kind of reckoning.
The road curves the same way, but the view is different.
My mother — just shy of ninety — still makes pies with the same steady hands,
rolling dough like she always has,
as if the years haven’t touched her apron strings.

We used to pick blackberries bags full,
pulling over where...

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The Antique Round Table
2025-07-16 11:00 UTC by Corey

When my mother was a little girl.

The school asked—
Bring what you can.
A penny. A nickel. A dollar if you were lucky.

Each week, the children lined up.
Coins warm from their hands.
Dropped one by one into a small box.

At the end of the week,
The teacher walked to the bank.
Opened accounts.
One for each child.

The money...

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My Godmother Mary
2025-07-15 11:00 UTC by Corey

Marybed

My Godmother Mary has always had a way of lighting up the room before she even steps into it.
Her home, once brimming with color and curious little things, felt like walking into a story. Every corner whispered charm, a kind of order that could only come from chaos lovingly arranged. You never left her house empty-handed—not with objects,...

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Happiness Addiction
2025-07-14 11:00 UTC by Corey

Back Home
2025-07-13 11:00 UTC by Corey

I’m standing in the house where I first knew the world. The walls feel the same.
The ground holds me like it remembers my weight.

It hits me somewhere between the front steps and the kitchen light—this quiet feeling, soft as dust motes in morning sun.

The scent of chocolate chip cookies cooling on the counter. Homemade pie, the...

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