Holly B.F. Warren Artist -Mind Wanderer- Writer Optimist

Category: writing

  • The Irony of Calm

    Can we calm up?Does it need flaring down? There is a distinct, sharp irony in the phrase Calm down.It arrives not as a life-preserver but as an anchor dropped directly onto a drowning soul. In the theater of high emotion, hearing those two words is like watching someone pull a heavy curtain shut, willfully becoming…

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  • The Irony of Calm

    Can we calm up?Does it need flaring down? There is a distinct, sharp irony in the phrase Calm down.It arrives not as a life-preserver but as an anchor dropped directly onto a drowning soul. In the theater of high emotion, hearing those two words is like watching someone pull a heavy curtain shut, willfully becoming…

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  • The Irony of Calm

    Can we calm up?Does it need flaring down? There is a distinct, sharp irony in the phrase Calm down.It arrives not as a life-preserver but as an anchor dropped directly onto a drowning soul. In the theater of high emotion, hearing those two words is like watching someone pull a heavy curtain shut, willfully becoming…

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  • The Geometry of Joy.

    Joy, a habit we wear. HBFW The architecture of a well-lived life is not built on the noise of constant doing but in the sacred geology of stillness. We often chase joy as if it were a distant peak to conquer an inheritance of loud achievements and frantic motion. True joy however arrives in a…

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