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Message from The Rock

by Belinda MunozMay 23, 2012

ANTICIPATION
I see Alcatraz everyday. On most days, it sits like a rare gem floating in liquid sapphire. The bay from a few storeys high is always a mesmerizing view. Everything that surrounds this small island is in constant motion — drifting, swirling, passing through.
This past weekend, after five years of look-but-can’t-touch anticipation, son declared [...]

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The Combo Platter

by Belinda MunozMay 9, 2012

Big things, in a way, are simpler.
Often, it’s the little things that I find (make?) complicated.
Take dinner, for example. What’s for dinner? Hmmm, let’s see. What’s in the fridge? Nothing? What’s in season? Oh, no time to stop by the grocery store?
What’s quick and easy? Shall we go out for Thai or Japanese? [...]

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T.G.I.M.

by Belinda MunozMay 7, 2012

I’ve come to like Mondays.
But I didn’t for a long time. Oh, no.
Mondays felt like a needy, clingy ex-boyfriend that I had to treat with civility out of guilt, coming around with a regularity I could barely tolerate. Forced smiles, genuine grunts, eagerly ushering him out the door.
Mondays felt like those flies that swarm the [...]

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How to Listen to What Matters

by Belinda MunozApril 27, 2012

This is the last day of the Five for Five challenge. Today’s topic is listening. Thanks so much for reading. Be sure to visit Momalom to read some gorgeous writing.
There is noise around me. Constantly.
It sits in the background, buzzing,
seeping into the cracks of quietude.
The chatter, off-rhythm cacophony, irritates me.
Most days, its decibel is [...]

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Age through the Eyes of the Wise

by Belinda MunozApril 26, 2012

Day four of Momalom’s 5 for 5 challenge. The topic is age.
I’d love to share something wise or profound on the topic of age, but I fear I haven’t lived long enough to qualify. How’s that for a stab at levity?
Age does not diminish
the extreme disappointment
of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the [...]

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Black, White, Color and Gray

by Belinda MunozApril 25, 2012

*I am participating in Momalom’s Five for Five Challenge. Today’s topic is pictures.
Freeze. Smile. Click.
It sounds easy enough. A three-second pause for a photographic payoff to last a lifetime? Sounds like a reasonable trade to me.
Isn’t this why we take pictures? We want to capture the warmth and beauty so we can re-visit the [...]

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Code to Joy (book review)

by Belinda MunozApril 25, 2012

We are meant to be happy. Instinctively, we all know this, somewhere deep inside. We all know what it’s like to feel a burst of delight. Every one of us has at some point in our lives experienced a sense of ecstatic joy, of euphoria at the sheer sensation of being alive.
Have you ever wondered [...]

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Words

by Belinda MunozApril 24, 2012

*I am participating in Momalom’s Five for Five Challenge. Today’s topic is words.
Writing a post about words is a bit like painting a picture about colors. The possibilities are endless and yet knowing how to begin is a challenge.
I could open with a speech that moved me and millions others who wanted to believe in [...]

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Change

by Belinda MunozApril 23, 2012

*I am participating in Momalom’s Five for Five Challenge. Today’s topic is change.
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Change, anyone?
Collectively, democratic nations vote a resounding yes time and time again as [...]

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