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Turning 30 Birthday Candles

Turning 30

Posted on December 8, 2023December 8, 2023 by alexis

In three decades, I’d like to think I’ve learnt a lot. I’ve learnt to appreciate time, especially. To appreciate what we have, and what we don’t. To find friends, to leave places, to discover new beliefs, and to leave old ones behind. In cliches, it’s a journey. But really, for me, it has felt episodic in many ways.

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Update

Posted on February 26, 2023June 20, 2023 by alexis

An update on our lives (and why it’s been so long since I last posted).

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Take Me Back: A Short Story

A short fictional story about the afterlife, written and read by Alexis Veenendaal.

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Use of music owned by FesliyanStudios

#shortstory #fiction #afterlife

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Highlight

Posted on May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 by alexis

Highlight the wind when I breathe,
The sun as I tilt my head,
The plants when I want to feed
And earth when I join the dead…

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Photo by Dmitriy Zub: https://www.pexels.com/photo/small-monkey-screaming-in-zoo-7057974/

Guest of Honour

Posted on April 30, 2022April 30, 2022 by alexis

Honoured guest, do you come to me to seek a life beyond the tree?

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Grain of Sand

Posted on April 30, 2022May 18, 2022 by alexis

Eventually the bridge will collapse and the car will break down. The child will grow and live and then die. The seas will wash away the land and the fish will bloat and float to the surface and the sun will burn their scales. Their bones will sink to the sand below and some day the water will brea

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Each Dawn

Posted on April 29, 2022 by alexis

Live each dawn as if first morn,
for every day anew, reborn.
And seek a light to spark each hour…

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Photo by Tymur Khakimov: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bread-dawn-sunset-field-6412606/

It Gnaws

Posted on November 28, 2019April 20, 2022 by alexis

It gnaws at you
with hungry maw – but subtly,
inconsistently,
the monster of darkness, gray and gloom:
a loneliness drawing from light
and

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