A New Bloom

A New Bloom

Where the Starving Activist Lives

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  • Grinding the Goals, 2023

    Happy 2023, everybody. I’m a month (and some change) late writing those words, but keep reading. We moved cross-country last summer and as those who’ve ever moved a household from one place to another can attest, is a beast. The moving company was a nightmare and we got here about three days before the 2022…

    AR Neal

    14 February, 2023
    writing
    SWFA
  • Time Flies

    Photo courtesy: Dr. Jamie Long I had no idea it had been this long since I’d stopped by to leave a trail of words on this page. If you’ve been on the journey with me, you’ve likely seen the various deserts I’ve come back from — writing deserts, that is, where nothing beyond the occasional…

    AR Neal

    6 November, 2022
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  • Sometimes, It’s All Too Much …

    I am aghast with gratefulness, truly I am. But … That’s the danger, isn’t it. Not being able to stay in a place of gratefulness because of all the other things going on. Today, for me, it’s immense anxiety. There’s a lot going on and I feel like I’m standing on one foot, atop a…

    AR Neal

    22 July, 2022
    Non-fiction
    anxiety
  • A Missive on Choice and Control

    Remove the beam from your own eye … Matthew 7:5 Oh, yes: the Creator of the Universe has a sense of humor. There is no need for sitcoms or daytime talk shows in the heavenly realms because, well … … we exist. We — humans, that is — spend an extraordinary amount of time, pointing…

    AR Neal

    29 June, 2022
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  • Asks and Gives

    There are times when all we do is ask, all we do is fall to our knees and cry out for whatever it is that we (think we) want. But the world is bigger than that. The spirit is bigger. Some may find that idea a bit floogy, mushy, or otherwise nebulous, especially if they…

    AR Neal

    15 June, 2022
    faith
    Real life
  • I Wrote a Letter: A Missive on Mental Health

    I’ve come to understand more and more that getting health care is not for the faint-hearted. Instead of the system getting better, it’s become more complicated, scary, and less caring than ever. Remember the neighborhood or ‘country doctor’? If you’re on the younger side, you might not have had the pleasure and pain of such…

    AR Neal

    29 May, 2022
    Society
    Real life
  • Rejection Regeneration 1: Jerry’s Secret

    Jerry had been excited about traveling from the created moon out behind Titan, where his family had lived since his great-grandmother had been a baby. He’d never been away from there, not even outside the atmospheric dome to visit Titan or one of the floating cities high in Saturn’s atmosphere. To have been hired on…

    AR Neal

    20 May, 2022
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  • Rejection Regeneration

    So, Paramount+ has ‘The Stand’ series. No, this post isn’t about the whole thing going on with Johnny Depp right now. It’s about the character who was a writer. At one point, he and the female character he was really into talk about the time she told him to save his rejection letters. This is…

    AR Neal

    20 May, 2022
    Rejection Regeneration
    writing
  • Choruses and Coke

    I’ve never understood some drugs, which I guess is a good thing. I never understood pills, especially since I like to read the labels of prescription medications. I’m not taking some tablet with a lovely hue and smiley face, just because. Just sayin. I even struggle to take nasal spray when I have a cold,…

    AR Neal

    18 May, 2022
    Miscellaneous
    life
  • Don’t Feed the Reaper

    He snorted with disgust as he wiped crumbs from his lower jaw. His robes fluttered and clung below what pushed forward like a middle-aged paunch. He looked into his own eyes, a reflection in the hallway mirror of one more house, one more appointment to take the hand of someone on their way to eternity.…

    AR Neal

    20 April, 2022
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