Pretty Bird! — Part 2, a Parable by Mikaela Jade Taylor

The blind kid tilted his head toward the couple. “I wasn’t blind at all. I saw everything. Aesop stepped forward, her eyes blazing. “And you know my name isn’t Aesop. My name is (Continuing from the preview…) And with each second, a chorus of voices, once filled with amusement and love for the adorned couple, now laced with venom, echoed …

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Pretty Bird!, a Parable by Mikaela Jade Taylor

Recently, something reminded me of an old proverb, where a woman named Aesop, who had just lost a very important part of her life, got a weird vibe about someone else in her tribe and decided to test her loyalty. She gave the woman with the weird vibe and her husband, two well-known business owners in their community, a safe …

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This is what PTSD is like

Do you know what betrayal trauma does to someone’s brain? What about betrayal trauma compounded by more betrayal trauma? Is betrayal trauma something that you want to be a part of in someone’s life? I was diagosed with Chronic PTSD in November 2024, first from personal events in my family, which have finally been ironed out, but only from the …

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Why Core Values are so important to me

When I first learned about core values in 2019 and why they are so important, I had no idea just how important they would become for me. This morning I went through and rewrote my core values. These are me, 100%, and anyone who knows me knows this to be a fact. These are not supposed to be a wish …

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What it’s like being a transgender parent of five

One question that comes up sometimes is what it’s like being a transgender parent of 5 children and “How have they taken the changes?” Before I started transitioning, my wife, Rae, and I had many conversations about how we would go about telling them and there were many fears about how they would react. We watched countless videos about how …

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I guess you can say that I ‘souled out’

Back in January of this year, I was terrified. There was an impending doom that was not just following me, but completely embodying me and encompassing me everywhere that I went. I was in a heavy, murky fog with very limited vision, but I had faith and a great circle of people around me carrying me through one of the …

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Learning how to never give up from a bicycle

As I sit here on my couch nursing a knee injury from last week, I can’t wait to hit the streets on my bicycle again. I bought my first bike since I was a teenager back in the summer of 2021. It’s a heavy, fat-tire Mongoose bike with a very uncomfortable seat but it looks cool and will ride over …

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