Patience Says The Heron (Wait, What?)
"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind."
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P is for Patience
Remember your last year of high school, how all your teachers kept stressing the difference between high school and post-secondary...
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Pandemic Planning and the Need for Patience with Yourself
Chances are you've heard the phrases "in these uncertain times," "these unprecedented times," and my favorite, "we're in this together” on...
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A Letter to Myself: Life in Quarantine
Dear Linda, Times have been tough lately. You live in Irvine, away from all your friends and family. You came back from spring break to...
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Be Kind To Yourself
I don’t know if you’ve looked around lately, but the world is a bit of a mess right now. As frightening as 2020 has been so far, some...
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Short Story: When Change Happens, The Battle Begins
Bee Mo’Adams and Bop Tu’Beats Jones are kind, well-mannered teenagers. They always stuck closer together because the outside world made...
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My Journey Living in Quarantine With My Mental Illness
My current struggle to live with my mental illness during these times of confinement.
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Patience is a Virtue
We should take this time of isolation to be grounded in gratitude
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How I Taught Myself To Practice Radical Acceptance
Radical acceptance is accepting that it's a rainy day on a day when you planned to visit the beach. It's accepting your partner's flaws for...
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Safe Travels: Tips on Dating Across Cultures as an International Student
"She’s my world but I wasn’t born in hers."
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A Life Motto You Can’t Ignore: The Three P’s
Be present, patient and passionate. How’s that for an alliteration? It’s not only an alliteration, it’s a life motto that can easily be...
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Self-Grow(ing)
One of the hardest things about growing is the patience that you have to have with yourself, the head gardener. Self-growth seems so easy...
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Taking Small Bites
With the beginning of a new semester and a new decade, I’m sure I am not alone in trying to shake off the winter break slump and get back...
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Writer to Writer
A Poem by Katie Franklin
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Simply Having Patience
We have all faced frustration, hardship, or misery, and we have a hard time keeping calm. Waiting is one of the hardest things we can...
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The Timeline of Life
Mostly everyone graduates high school at the age of eighteen, heads straight to college, graduates with a Bachelor’s degree at twenty-two,...
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Halloween, Christmas, and the Art of Patience
Every year, as soon as Halloween ends, stores will put away the jack-o-lanterns to make way for advent calendars and gingerbread house kids...
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What Teaching Kids Music Taught Me
I joined a volunteer group called the Music Teachers of Isla Vista and taught music to elementary school students. Because I have a musical...
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What is Love?
Love…. What is love? Is it the way you gaze into each other’s eyes? Is it the way you finish each other’s sentence? Where does love start...
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A Guide to Mastering Winged Eyeliner and Finding the Perfect Mascara
Time to stop winging it and lashing out!
