you are worth the sum of two moons and three-hundred and ninety-seven crystalline stars. you outshine everything everything everything. you are beautiful, like a fallen paper angel, with tattered wings and a shipwreck smile, and your halo is woven from strands of golden sun and smiles and love you are damaged, maybe, but through your cracks shines a glow that's worth...
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I just realized that for those of us who joined Assembly back when the website was first launched in February it's been 6 months. Half a year. That's quite a lot of time if you think about it. Yet it feels like it's only been a week. New people keep joining and our group keeps growing. This is a fabulous website, and it's more than that. It's a community. And these past few months have...
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floating in existence laid down, looking up above the water, below the sky caught in the middle unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water visual symbol of the infinite induced feelings of transcendence reach up as the world grows expands and opens its arms for you chest bursting with the unknown one of many, yet the only one
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I can't believe I've been away from the Assembly for over two months. It feels like I've come back home. Life has been really busy the past months. School was consuming my life and I was spending way too much time on here so I had to cut back drastically. But I'm back and it feels so good. I've missed all you beautiful people, and it looks like we've grown a great deal in the past...
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He moves like my grandfather. Having the grace of age, With the crafting hands of Noah. Given a gift by God I watch him at his craft, Stripping away the rough bark. Specks of dust flowing on the end of his breath. Dust clouds that fell upon my skin, With hope, that his skill will pass unto me. I envy him at his work As he cuts and strips the bark Until it is...
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It is 31 degrees outside and currently snowing. Just wanted to express my outrage over that. Isn't it spring already? Chicago seems to have missed the memo... Not only is it snowing, it was also raining/hailing really bad and of course the wind was murderous. I ventured out to the beach last night with my best friend, I'm pretty sure we're both going to die from pneumonia now. But the...
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Money rules the world, no doubt about it. But I didn't really see how far its arms extended until today. I'm an editor for my school paper and for this issue I had to write a story about a new state-of-the-art lab being built at our school. Along with the lab the school is going to undergo various other changes, mostly for aesthetic appeal rather than anything necessary. But all the...
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