Today's Tendril...

When God gives you a fighting chance, you don’t take a dive.

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Today's Tendril...

You cannot pull the wool over God's eyes.

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Today's Tendril...

In war there are many sides: inside, outside, their side, our side, good side, bad side, and three sides to every story.

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Today's Tendril...

Expansion for the sake of occupying more space is nothing but greed.

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Today's Tendril...

As the leaves of Autumn fall around me, I place a little piece of the day's worries upon their backs, and watch them become lost among the thousands of worries already on the ground.

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Today's Tendril...

"Finished" is a state of relativity.

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Today's Tendril...

Some handle sadness with food,    some with seclusion or withdrawal,       and some foolishly (and destructively) self-medicate. I turn to paper and pen and write,    until the sadness wanders of the page,       and is no more.

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