crouching gopher, hidden cobra
I am, at times, a coiled cobra, ready to strike. After too much time in the snake charmer’s basket, I can no longer resist the seductive...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jan 30
- 2 min
jack in the box
I turn the crank and it plays a silly song. Even though you know what’s about to happen, it’s still a bit startling when the lid springs...
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Ilan Cooley
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
arrival
In order arrive somewhere new, we have to leave the place we were. This rings true as I reflect on a year of change and reinvention. I...
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Ilan Cooley
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
fitting in
Life is an ongoing sequence of attempts to make things fit. We try to fit in with multiple kinds of people, places and things, hoping for...
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Ilan Cooley
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
jigsaw
Life can be…well…puzzling. It’s like a giant, complicated jigsaw puzzle. Just when we think we have it figured out, we realize we don’t....
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Ilan Cooley
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
love yourself first
We are told to put on our own oxygen mask before helping others in case of an emergency. It is a logical step, but is hard to remember in...
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Ilan Cooley
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
outside the lines
When we are little we colour outside the lines. Life is abstract, so we splash colour everywhere, never considering what the rules are....
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Ilan Cooley
- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
to-get-her
Just think of the distance, from here, to there. It’s simply a space, filled with matter, and air. It may not be much, or seem much, if...
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Ilan Cooley
- Aug 15, 2022
- 2 min
eclipse
When I was a kid, my dad put a giant welding helmet on me so I could safely watch a total eclipse of the sun. It sat heavily on my tiny...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jul 12, 2022
- 2 min
one year
Give yourself a year and you can change your life. Not much looks like it did a year ago. It has been a full year since I made a bold...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
roy-g-biv
I forget a lot of things lately, like walking into a room and not remembering why. I used to use the mnemonic device ROY-G-BIV to help...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
hold on
"I have trouble processing information, and doing routine tasks. It is hard to navigate personal situations, and read social cues. If I...
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Ilan Cooley
- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
unapologetically me
The wind whispers, “come with me.” I dash off to dance like a prairie fire. Creative sparks feed the flames. Imagination runs wild. Free....
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Ilan Cooley
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
zig zag
"We need to shatter our snail shell shackles and start to really live again." Life seems linear in a lot of ways, but that’s the macro...
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Ilan Cooley
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
quicksand
I couldn’t have written this last week because I felt like I was in quicksand. Can anyone else relate? There are so many problems facing...
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Ilan Cooley
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
heart strings
Are they the ties that bind us to each other? Do they keep us tethered to life, until they release us into the hereafter? I have...
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Ilan Cooley
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
I almost died when I was seven. My family jokes about it, the way you can joke when the person lives to tell the tale. It was a real...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
don't dim to fit in
Due to personal reasons, I will be shining brightly and unapologetically for the foreseeable future. There is enough room for all the...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jan 14, 2022
- 1 min
butterfly wings
I’m a wild girl with fast feet in waist high grass that hisses as it bends. The brisk breeze catapults the crafty creature I am chasing,...
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Ilan Cooley
- Jan 14, 2022
- 1 min
pass creek
Tears sprung from my eyes and streamed down my cheeks like the water cascading over the rainbow rocks in the pictures I’d just purchased....
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