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In Memory of Cora Louise (Snavely) Linkous – 1948 – 2023 (age 74)

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. We have fallen in love with our own image.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

If he is broken, he will break you too.

He gave my petals the faith to bloom.

I will be waiting ...

The narrative ended and so did we.

My first will always be my last.

These are the moments that I love the most when the floating mist clothes the quiet morn.