Author Archives: Kristie Bueno

Silence

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.” ~ Confucius Our lives are so busy, filled with lists and lists of things that will never be completely done. Phone calls that are incoming that we cannot make time for the … Continue reading

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A New Normal

“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.” ~ Deepak Chopra What is normal? And … Continue reading

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Fairy Tale

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality — for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me … Continue reading

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Damaged Goods

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” ~ … Continue reading

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Craziness

“You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.” ~ Lauren Bacall It’s that time of year when everything has been kicked up a notch. Talk about living up to the … Continue reading

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Good and Evil

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn I obviously have no business speaking on anyone else’s behalf, but … Continue reading

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Time

It only hurts when I breathe. My heart trying to find a way to numb this pain, a facade to ease my mind. I stare at the clock that no longer moves. Not forward, not backward. Not sure what it’s … Continue reading

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My Beloved

I feel as if it were yesterday, our hearts, beating as one. The sun is setting on the day. Oh, where has my beloved gone? I must not rest my eyes. This nightmare has not won, I will not believe … Continue reading

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Identity

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt I have to say that many things in the last few days have completely blind-sided me.  I have learned that I have to accept people for exactly … Continue reading

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Walls

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it … Continue reading

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