Change never arrives gently.
It carves through you slowly
until one day
it catches you
mid-sentence, mid-cigarette, mid-grief—and you realize
the person staring back
no longer looks easy to destroy.—
-Mandy Ricks
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Tag: Friday Thoughts
Grasping
Are you grasping for some joy, perhaps some inspiration? But the dark keeps marching, twisting your thoughts into a spider web. Each tentacle sticking to a thought creating darkness and doom. But fight it , fight it. Because you are much stronger than doom and so much stronger than. One. Single. Thought. -Mandy Ricks
Today’s News
Thousands of miles,
bombs are dropped,
to threaten retaliation.
A plane flies,
A ball of fire,
families die,
and lives are destroyed.
Free speech is tested,
Democracy loses its lustre.
A dictator calls himself a President,
and the people cry.
-Mandy Ricks
Today
I hope today you fall in love with being you. -Mandy Ricks with Willow
People pleasing
I have spent too many years with my heart and legs open, hoping to find love, and to please, but only finding hypocrisy. -Mandy Ricks
You’re beautiful
Give someone a complement and make their day. -Mandy Ricks
Try this…
When it gets hard, try harder. When it gets easy say thank you. -Mandy Ricks with Willow
Do it anyway
It’s okay to be scared. Do it anyway. -Mandy Ricks
That damn anxiety
Not enough to do can be as anxiety provoking as too much to do. -Mandy Ricks
Small things
It’s all the small things that make life big. -Mandy Ricks
Sunshine
Stay close to people who feel like sunshine. -Mandy Ricks
Shadows
Don’t let yesterday cast shadows on today. -Mandy Ricks
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