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Musings from Southtown
bonita.alegria
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Being Silently Drawn
NOTE: I wrote this almost a month ago but just realized I never published it... There is nothing so satisfying or quietly thrilling as...
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bonita.alegria
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Psilocybin, Breakfast of Champions
Gosh, managing my mind is quite consuming! I'm determined to master it because my life depends on it, but wow, what a challenge. During...
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bonita.alegria
Aug 27, 20232 min read
This Morning
How to embrace the moment of waking each day is much debated and opined on because it can be so fraught with remembrances, regrets and...
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bonita.alegria
Jul 25, 20233 min read
Memo for the Ruler of the World
Listening to NPR in my hybrid - which I wish was all electric or ideally that cars did not even exist and I was in a solar powered train...
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bonita.alegria
Jul 23, 20233 min read
Dear Scar...
I so hoped you were not permanent, but I am 63 and you are still here. Not only are you extant, but you continue to throb. I am giving...
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bonita.alegria
Jul 16, 20233 min read
Take Your Heart in Your Hands
In the nonstopness I become lost, an automaton in sync with my ticking schedule of engagements. I detect a prideful pleasure as I arrive...
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bonita.alegria
Jul 4, 20232 min read
4th of July
I sit here in the guest room of my father's condo having left him and his lady friend at her place down the hall. Fireworks have begun...
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bonita.alegria
Jun 29, 20232 min read
Preparing for my Date with Death
I'll wear flowers in my hair and depart with abandon, ready to melt into the pregnant darkness of death. I don't know how or when, so...
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bonita.alegria
Jun 6, 20233 min read
My Insurance Adjuster
He's precise and professional. The one everyone wants to handle their claims. He climbs roofs, visits police-marked hit and run scenes,...
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bonita.alegria
May 20, 20233 min read
A lonely end for a popular girl
This is my debonair dad and his lady friend at his 85th birthday 6 years ago. Adie was one of those women who had a thousand friends,...
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bonita.alegria
Apr 9, 20232 min read
Uber Dharma
The days speed by. My wrist heals. A boyfriend appears. Then it's time for a trip to California to visit my dad. The days pass quickly...
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bonita.alegria
Feb 12, 20231 min read
Broken Wrist, Human Kindness, Mind's Workings
My wrist absorbed the fall's impact and promptly cracked. On the pavement near Blue Star three weeks ago today. Not a soul was around...
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bonita.alegria
Feb 5, 20233 min read
Warriorship
Mural at South Flores and Furnish Streets, San Antonio. The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and...
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bonita.alegria
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Don't ever go in there at night
The blight in my humble Southtown neighborhood has not been transformed as planned. Instead the discarded brewery has defied four...
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bonita.alegria
Jan 21, 20232 min read
Parade of Men & A Wake Up
So many lonely men. Talking men. "You're prettier than your pictures" men, guitar playing, drinking, overweight, defensive, expansive,...
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bonita.alegria
Dec 31, 20223 min read
Dreaming 2023
I wake up to the smell of coffee and rise to find my tall, kind of goofy partner fixing eggs and gluten free toast. He embraces me in the...
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bonita.alegria
Dec 31, 20222 min read
A toast to changing the human pattern...
The process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality,...
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bonita.alegria
Dec 29, 20222 min read
The Channeler
This afternoon I Skyped for two hours with my sister's channeler who concisely summed up my situation and provided detailed strategies...
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bonita.alegria
Dec 19, 20227 min read
A Text Duet - 10 virtual days (illustrated)
THURSDAY 12/8/22 11:05pm John: Hi Bonita! John here from Tinder FRIDAY 12/9/22 3:49am Bonita: Hey John! Just woke up and saw your note....
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bonita.alegria
Dec 12, 20222 min read
My actions are my only true belongings
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.” ― ...
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