Category: Food For Thought
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Ariana Grande Addresses Body-Shaming Commentary, Should More Celebs Take Heed of their fan’s trolling
“The body that you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body. I was on a lot of antidepressants, drinking on them, eating poorly, & at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you… “I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people’s…
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At least 600 children were sexually abused by Baltimore’s Catholic Church over 60 years, Maryland AG says
Maryland’s top prosecutor on Wednesday accused Catholic Church officials in Baltimore of engaging in a yearslong coverup of the sexual abuse of 600-plus children, some of whom were “preyed upon by multiple abusers over decades.” All of this is according to NBC News. State Attorney General Anthony Brown chronicled the abuse in a 463-page report that named several…
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Call it Writer’s Block or the Nightmare of Modern Dating
The mystery of love. I’m sitting here on my bed, listening to old, nostalgic jazz music, staring at this white, blank screen. The cursor blinks and blinks like a ticking time bomb, always a ticking time bomb, as if it would explode and shatter my eyeglasses. While I briefly imagine what would happen if a…
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I TOOK TWO DAYS OFF AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
The art of doing nothing helps you lean more into who you are meant to be. Who we are is directly tied to what we spend our time doing so it’s very easy to forget you’re a human being these days not just your job title. I go from CEO to assistant to the CEO,…
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Who Am I to You?
Who am I to you? I’d like to say that I am more than what meets the eye. I find it absurd that some people make assumptions about who I am, especially those who only knew me for two months. They ask generic, superficial questions, maybe dabble in a few intellectual conversations, and then suddenly,…
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All In A Year’s Time, A Lot Can Change In Life, Tahyira Savanna Speaks on her personal growth journey
Dear Diary, Thank you universe for blessing me in unexpected ways. I named the title All In a Year’s Time. It is reflective of me truly growing up and entering a new freedom zone. I launched all in a year’s time when I was 24 years old. I couldn’t find a job during the great…
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My Body, My Temple
By: Charlene Frett He lays his head against my chest, between my breasts, tracing the creases and outlines of my body. His fingers glide along the folds of my stomach, circle around my navel, and travel down to the marks on my thighs. We are sweaty and slick from the positions our bodies performed, and…
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Black People’s Mental Health Is At Risk Consuming Race-Based Violent Videos Online
We watch our people killed by police right from our smartphones – and white supremacists are even live-streaming their murders! We want to stay “informed,” but is watching this racially violent content actually doing us more harm than good? Listen to Live Hangouts, Tahyira Keeps It Too Reel, a podcast covering Black mental health by…
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Favorite Color
My favorite color Used to be red. How easy it was to swipe the shade Across my lips And pull it over my head To hug my body. But they didn’t like that color on me Only liked to see the dress On their bedroom floor instead. They convinced me all the time I started…
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Pillow Talk
His mattress was on the floor, two pillows dressed up his bed. It gave off the potential of an artist but it looked like he was pretending. He never asked me if I liked his place, probably because he knew that even with my falsity to it all, he could still tell I was lying.…
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Waking Life in 2022
Is anyone else tired more than usual?
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The Art Of Privacy
On the most recent episode of the Fox comedy Call Me Kat, I was truly able to empathize with Randi (played by Kyla Pratt) and her reasoning behind not wanting Carter (Julian Gant) to know her middle name. I, too, have anxiety letting others know everything about me. And even though telling someone your middle…
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I Spent The Latter Half Of 2021 Completely Disrespecting My Body. And It Showed.
I wish I could say it was a shock to me when, one day, I looked up at my reflection and caught a glimpse of what was surely the negative effects of spending the last half of 2021 neglecting my body. It wasn’t. Pandemic body? Is that what they were calling it? Well, whatever it…
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On seeing through the fog…
In a city like Boulder, Colorado, a town I lived in for 11 years, where they boast that the sun shines nearly 300 days a week, it’s always a little strange when you can’t see the mountains behind the clouds. And, then, it’s such a revelation when they begin to lift and expose the glorious…
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How To Stay Positive During 2022
By: Rochelle Jones So the new year is upon us, and almost everybody in the world is doing the same thing. Coming up with ways to make their new year lighter and better while letting some things go and making a list of resolutions and goals to have a productive upcoming year. However, according to…
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For This New Year
I want to live. I want to have that kind of life that I’ve always wanted. The kind that I can tell my fifteen-year-old self it was worth going through what I had to go through to get here. I want to be happy. The kind of happy that makes others uncomfortable. To wonder how…
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The Secret Garden
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett continues to be a favorite book that I have gone back to reread about three times already. Published in 1911 in England, this children’s book has…
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What Does It Truly Mean To Be Single?
BY: Rochelle Jones Single. The word itself packs a double-sided punch. There’s a sense of pride and excitement about being single. You’re independent; you don’t have to make decisions based on others. There are no birthdays, anniversaries, family gatherings, or holidays to stress over with your significant other. You have total authority over your own…