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HUMANITY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our Connection is Uncanny<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I feel everyone. It’s not an “empath” thing. It has a special purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

There is neither best nor most  in anything. Wonderful and tormenting superlatives are born out of faith and consciousness. How I respond. How it makes me feel. How it drives me to create beauty or fury. It is only ignorance that complicates an essence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sitting in Queen\u2019s park, admiring the young and the old on a merry Wednesday. Bizarre, sweet, surprising, rollicking, and sometimes dramatic behaviors flash before me. Principles. Logic. Humanity. I know. I see myself in each heart. I see my past in each face. I see my worth in each move. Nothing fancy. Just desperate for human connections. Behind\u00a0 the smiles and hidden in laughs are loneliness and suppressed pains which would later become a satisfying phenomenon. Behind the closed doors. On keys. On paper. On to a computer screen. I\u2019m alive. I believe in living.\u00a0<\/em>

Thank you for the inspiration.

— S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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