jessa

Reflections on becoming

Life

  • Late-night musings #5

    There are things we need to let go of, even the ones we once held dear, especially when they don’t give life anymore. It’s time to prune the weeds. Read more


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  • Letter no. 39

    Dear reader from the future, Have you heard about the millenium bug? I’ve just watched a documentary, “Time Bomb Y2K,” and it showed me the extent of the panic that happened before the turn of the century. All I can remember as a five-year-old was that there seemed to be a problem with the turn of Read more


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  • Sorry, I talk hoarsely at the moment

    Oh, how loud is the voice inside my head that I forgot how my audible voice is rough from a dry cough? I only realized it when I tried answering a phone call, and my voice failed to go out of my throat. Ah, yes, let me know if you can’t understand me. I talk Read more


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  • Late-night musings #4

    Revisiting some short poems I wrote eight years ago makes me think about how much I changed. Some parts of me remained, but some I’ve learned to let go or perhaps suppress because they are not needed anymore. Yet, those same parts have helped me become who I am today and write the things I Read more


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  • “What’s good to eat?”

    In the middle of a task, half of my mind shifts away by asking, “What’s good to eat?” while trying to escape the other half, which tries to focus and be in the flow. That was last year. And a year before that, and before that, too. Okay, I might be in an unhealthy cycle, and you Read more


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