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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 30, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
David Himmel
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of November 30, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
David Himmel

Your life is not what you make it. It is what life lets you get away with.

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Dec 5, 2025
David Himmel

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Drowning in Sorrow but Doggy-paddling My Way Back to You
Elizabeth Harper, Poetry Elizabeth Harper 3/13/19 Elizabeth Harper, Poetry Elizabeth Harper 3/13/19

Drowning in Sorrow but Doggy-paddling My Way Back to You

Apt metaphor
underwater
drowning in despair
movement difficult
slow motion from the get-go
tangled feet
depressed brain
muffled moans of pain
pawing at the tide

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