surrender
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I’ve been exploring what inner authority feels like now, at seventy-three — learning to let the many parts of me listen to one another instead of striving to lead. It’s the same balance I’m seeking in my art and writing, especially in my poem Tether of Knowing—how do we honor the edges and still find
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There are no laurels for quiet repayment.No ceremonies for those who wrote checks instead of manifestos.No headlines for those who worked second jobs and turned down dreams. But they are there. The artists who couldn’t paint until the debt was gone.The caregivers who delayed their care.The teachers who stayed in their lane because the loan
Parker&Creative 