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From the Dark
I have gone dark for awhile from journaling. Much has happened since my last entry. I got a new job working at a private school, hoping that there I would find people that would value me. In the beginning it was great. My new team welcomed me onboard with smiles. People seemed thankful. I worked…
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9-11
The doctors told me that was the day my first son was due, and I was so excited because I could tell people that he was born on 9-11 because it was a huge emergency. Fortunately, he came late because later that day would be forever remembered as the anniversary of the terror attacks. The…
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New Slate
So I have moved on to work at a private school, leaving behind my pension in exchange for a new slate. Not long after leaving, my union finally won their demands for a fair contact. After almost three long years of my wage not moving its great to know that will change for my union…
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Who’s Marcie?
Happy Fourth! I started my new job this week, and I am loving it! My new team is hilarious and I need that. They welcomed me and made me feel at home before I even started. The only negative thing, which is actually huge, is that my director got hit by a truck. Luckily, he…
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The Farewell Speech I Never Gave
There were no special announcements when I left my place of work, one that I dedicated seven and a half years to. The people who gave those announcements did not believe I was worth the trouble, yet one of the ladies from the business area got one and she had not even been there for…
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The Invisible Condition
“Why am I so Brainwashed?”, She thought. The Catholic had been conditioned to prey to the existence of an invisible God. “Why am I such a Brainwashed Catholic?” Thoughts came from the beyond and transfigured into prayers translated from beyond the aether and the divine. The Brainwashed Catholic prayed for change in Upper Management.…
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Empathy or No Empathy
“This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” Selective empathy is on the rise. Fritz Breithaupt, in his book, “The Dark Sides of Empathy”, explores one’s ability to empathize with others as also a…
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Equality Not Here
There has been no advancement after more than seven years in this dismal place. The boss-man continues to discriminate, claiming that if there is a time where I do advance then he would have to advance one of my male coworkers as well or it will not be “equal”. Equality? Equality does not always equate…
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Happy 100th Birthday, Inay!
We call my grandmother Inay (mother in Tagalog). She is a century old today! Here is a poem I wrote for her several years ago: it’s a hard place being her and being alive between the river and the rock crying raw across the wavy years and smiling too it’s hard to grow as ripe…
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UC Problems Continue
Although my visit to the Philippines pushed me a little out of my comfort zone by forcing me to viscerally experience the conditional differences between a third world country and my first world life, my first world problems still awaited me back home. I still hold onto the gratitude that I am in a good…