Author Archive: tyunglebower

Reverb12 Day Eighteen: The Color of Me

What color best represents the year you had in 2012? And why? What color would you like to invite into your life in 2013?  As soon as I read this prompt, I thought of what I am calling faded purple. Purple was traditionally a color reserved for royalty, so they say. The natural components to make purple pigments were uncommon and expensive …

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Reverb12 Day Seventeen: Surprise.

Staying with Daily Angst today: The most surprising thing that happened this year was… Off hand, the first thing I think of is voters in my state of Maryland by referendum upholding equal marriage rights for homosexuals. I honestly didn’t think the electorate had the political and moral will to do it this year. Outside of President …

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Reverb12 Day Sixteen: Adult Choices

From DailyAngst: Being an adult means making your own choices.  What choices were the hardest to make this year? Hard choices are sometimes things that make your life better, not worse. My difficult choice was a simply and productive one, but against the grain of my day to day. Early this year I chose to …

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Reverb12 Day Fifteen: Friendship

What was it like for you to be a friend to others this year?  Did you rekindle an old friendship?  Strengthen a current friendship?  Make friends with someone you didn’t think was “your type?” It would be difficult to get into too much detail about how I was a friend this year without breaking confidences and …

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Reverb12 Day Fourteen: Family Role

Did your role in the family shift or change over the past year?  How?  Why? In a sense. I do think that in many ways my relationship to much of my tumultuous family has taken a step back or two in recent years. There are tiny branches of my family with whom I get along, but …

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