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Alexis Rusch
Mar 5, 20231 min read
Mantra
The more time I spend submerged. The more I find pieces of myself that have been buried. The creator, the lover, the friend, the child,...
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Alexis Rusch
Mar 1, 20231 min read
Prolong the pain.
Prolong the pain are the words I hear. You wake up in the morning. Drive to the cove. The cold waters staring directly at you, almost...
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Alexis Rusch
Feb 27, 20232 min read
you can't stop the rain
Sometimes, you just can't stop the rain; experiences compound and you are full. She swore it wasn't the fact that she thundered at the...
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Alexis Rusch
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Lying on Ice
A body enters the hole. Your carabiner isn’t even on yet. Body’s friend enters the hole with the belief she will save him. Now we have...
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Alexis Rusch
Feb 13, 20231 min read
Empty Trash
I love the sound of the "empty trash" button on my MacBook Air. I wish it were that easy. Seward Harbor Clean-Up hosted by Dive Alaska...
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Alexis Rusch
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Are your ears ringing?
I’m really starting to believe we aren’t supposed to have the answers. Rather… the curiosity that fuels you; the day to day callings to...
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Alexis Rusch
Jan 21, 20232 min read
ubuntu.
as extremely hard I wish the trees would speak back to me... no, not spiritually because I do feel that. but like actually sit, laugh,...
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Alexis Rusch
Jan 19, 20231 min read
read this out loud
I have a bed to make. #seaempathy
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Alexis Rusch
Jan 15, 20232 min read
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Curiosity killed the Cat. And Jumping out of water killed the Fish. And Breathing in flames killed the Trees. And Staying in...
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Alexis Rusch
Jan 11, 20233 min read
"You are not going to scare off the right person with your honesty." -Riggs
Imagine being a Bird that has been duped with getting its tweeny little heart broken by its first love. Yesss… the one the Bird had its...
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Alexis Rusch
Dec 3, 20222 min read
Clipped.
I hear sirens inside my mind. A warning that disaster is on its way. These sirens are typically what wakes me up in the middle of the...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 27, 20222 min read
Forgiving the Sailor
I have always been drawn to the power of the sea; in particular when she thrashes. When I close my eyes I can picture the sounds of the...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 26, 20222 min read
"Put a noose around his neck
and text him "how's it hanging?"" - Lyric from Jackie Hill Perry's song No Ways Tired [Hook: Jackie Hill-Perry] Life is getting harder,...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 19, 20221 min read
Aquatic Ape on Land
Outside the cage at Independence Park. A goldfish swims in a circular pattern. . Magnetic fields of attraction. Damned through...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Lily pads
We choose our hard. You can choose to fight for an unhealthy relationship because it feeds the anxiously attached OR you can choose to...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 8, 20224 min read
Slowing Down
"It's okay to move slowly, provided you don't stop." - Ryan Holiday in the great book, Discipline is Destiny The following is a list of...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 6, 20223 min read
Feedback.
As a human... We will never really know how we appear to another human because we are stuck in the human in which we are. Does that make...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 5, 20223 min read
No Man's Land
No Man’s Land (round 2) When you are stripped of a connection You thought was deep To love the Sea You have got to really see She writes:...
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Alexis Rusch
Nov 4, 20223 min read
Delusion
"A belief or altered reality that is persistently held despite evidence or agreement to the contrary, generally in reference to a mental...
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Alexis Rusch
Oct 25, 20222 min read
how can I just start over
remember when you would finally have your report finished for your AP crit lit class and then the computer would crash ... and you forgot...
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