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Coming through the night

Motionless. I sit. In sunlight. Stilled by loss and grief spilling across screens and down streets. Through personal stories of friends and strangers. Hard and sad.

Bitter wounds. Raw pain rooted deep. Laid bare.

Motionless. I wait. Stilled by the scale of it. What are we to do? Hands rest, palms up.
Eyes lifted to open sky between tall trees.
Wordless cry to the One I trust. 

Eyes lifted to open sky.
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Riptide

Hot sun, blue sky. The ocean waves were high and constant at Kuta Beach in Bali that summer of my sophomore year in college.  

It was a familiar place. Site of many family vacations. But no longer the empty beach of my childhood. 

Tourists flocked there from all over the world. And hotels lined the ocean.

Ocean waves. Photo by Jeremy Bishop, Unsplash