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Weekly Top Posts: 2024-11-24
2024-11-24 05:00 UTC

  1. A Pomegranate Harvest: A Juicy Family Affair
  2. Quinoa Carrot Soup
  3. The Polar Plunge in the Canal
  4. Loving Kindness
  5. Being Home

The Small Town
2024-11-24 02:00 UTC by Corey

The Sheperd Boy

Behind my Mother’s home are rice fields, canals, a walnut orchard, blackberry bushes, sheep, dirt roads, the Buttes, the Sacramento Valley, and years of seeding, toil, and life lived.

I flew kites in these fields, rode motorcycles, fell, learned to drive, kissed, raked burn piles, roasted marshmallows, played hide and seek, sat staring...

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Awaken,” by Naima Penniman
2024-11-23 02:00 UTC by Corey

there’s a war going on

the first casualty was truth
and it’s inside you

the universe is counting on our belief
that faith is more powerful than fear
and in that the shifting moment
we’ll all remember why we’re here

in a world where you’re assassinated for having a dream
and the rich spend 9 billion a year to...

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Ten Years Ago is Still the Same Today
2024-11-22 02:00 UTC by Corey

Corey amaro brother zane

Feet up against the dashboard,

my brother drives,

a trailblazing with dust grows behind us.

A song rattles along with the shovels and beer cans in the back of the truck,

Road signs with faded memories attached to them, one by one, they pass by.

Corey amaro foothills cattle

Black crows spot the sky, and an oak tree stands alone with cattle grazing on a few specks of...

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My Mother
2024-11-21 02:00 UTC by Corey

L O V E ❤

Saying goodbye is harder and harder.

And I fear it will always be so.

Being Home
2024-11-20 02:00 UTC by Corey

One classic full throttle evening in my mom’s kitchen-

My brother Mat a talkin-

My family just hangin-

My mom à baking-

All of us just a being.

The Polar Plunge in the Canal
2024-11-19 02:00 UTC by Corey

Would you, could you,

jump in the canal?

Two cousins, had a plan to recall.

When they were little boys,

They’d leap in the canal, without fear, without fright.

with the summer sun high and bright,

The water was freezing,
as cold as could be,


But they’d laugh and they’d splash,

so wild and so...

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