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    • 112 Ratings
    • 7644 Views
    • 160 Comments
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    Why I'm Alone

    MARCH 23, 2009 3:44PM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: feminism, i can't believe i told you some of this, solo, single life, relationships, solitude

    • 37 Ratings
    • 2909 Views
    • 115 Comments
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    my soul

    OCTOBER 28, 2010 8:36PM

    By Drew-Silla


    Topics: solitude, madness, decay, despair

    • 96 Ratings
    • 1302 Views
    • 88 Comments
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    My coveted Silence

    JULY 29, 2012 7:50AM

    By FusunA


    Topics: balloon ride, cappadocia, turkey, photography, travel, sights and sounds of silence, solitude, aphrodite's open call, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 74 Ratings
    • 4020 Views
    • 77 Comments
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    The Inner Journey I Had to Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 8:56AM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: healing, solitude, sorrow, joy, grand manan island, new brunswick canada, for those feel loss

    • 45 Ratings
    • 1297 Views
    • 58 Comments
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    I've Shown Rooms

    NOVEMBER 21, 2009 12:29AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: fiction, environment, animals, empathic relationships, longing, time, material through time, solitude

    • 39 Ratings
    • 1200 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Unfriending

    MAY 23, 2011 8:33AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: a facebook reference from someone who doesn't have a facebook account, random encounters, relationships, social relations, solitude, egotism, introverts, barriers, random meetings, mental illness, end of friendship, friendship

    • 29 Ratings
    • 895 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    The Empty House Of Me

    JANUARY 20, 2010 5:45PM

    By Gail Walter


    Topics: the house of love, being alone, solitude, peace, empty nest, family, love, emptiness, space, awareness, silence, relationships

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 2826 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Drawing in Taverns

    DECEMBER 19, 2008 8:35AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: joy, concentration, solitude, taverns, drawing, art, true story

    • 28 Ratings
    • 803 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Elements: Titanium, Zinc, Lead

    JANUARY 22, 2010 11:57PM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: white, blue, winter, snow, landscape, desolation, radiation, aftershocks, love, finding our way, cat's contest, metals, solitude, loneliness, elements, personal essay, animals

    • 14 Ratings
    • 1017 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Confession to the Ocean

    JULY 3, 2009 11:52AM

    By Outside Myself


    Topics: my terrifying attempt at sharing my voice and trying to get over the perfectionism that permeates my life, hope, loneliness, solitude, there will be love someday, singing, crying, music, open call

    • 23 Ratings
    • 1250 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Siberia in the City

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 12:36PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: arachnophobia, contemporary french literature, a plot thwarted, what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander, city life, nature, solitude, philosophy, thoreau, musings, walden, sylvain tesson, books

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1914 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Can You Have Love and Work? The Sotomayor Case

    JULY 14, 2009 7:45AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: family, news, politics, feminism, fulfillment, loneliness, may sarton, rilke, solitude, workaholism, emotional cripples, romanticism, capitalism, scotus, life, lorraine berry, sonia sotomayor, david brooks, belief and religion, books

    • 25 Ratings
    • 762 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    The Serenity of Solitude

    AUGUST 7, 2010 8:30PM

    By Stacye Carroll


    Topics: stay-cation, pedicures, pajamas, solitude, hermits, summer vacation, vacation

    • 15 Ratings
    • 707 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    The loneliest number? (Inspired by Oryoki and Gabby Abby)

    MARCH 21, 2011 10:04AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: real talk, difficulties of couplehood, choices, solitude, gabby abby, oryoki bowl

    • 18 Ratings
    • 404 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Solitude

    DECEMBER 29, 2010 12:09PM

    By kitd


    Topics: wingsong flutes, solitude, love2flute

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1924 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    I Have Large Hands

    MARCH 2, 2012 10:36AM

    By Maureen Andrade


    Topics: hands, thinking, quiet, solitude, mid-life

    • 14 Ratings
    • 543 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    LIFE ~ a pictorial essay

    FEBRUARY 19, 2010 12:11PM

    By FusunA


    Topics: respect, compassion, solitude, gene kelly, singing in the rain, sorrow, friendship, fiction friday - not ! departues, innocence, love, story in photos, open call, pictorial essay, life

    • 9 Ratings
    • 590 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Please give me 15 minutes alone

    AUGUST 10, 2009 12:58AM

    By mypsyche


    Topics: wishes, solitude, mothering, family

    • 11 Ratings
    • 706 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Goodnight My Magical World

    DECEMBER 15, 2009 2:05PM

    By Gail Walter


    Topics: books, reading, bedtime, sleeping, solitude, peace

    • 5 Ratings
    • 710 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Home Alone

    MARCH 1, 2009 12:19PM

    By The Wood Elf


    Topics: facing it, fear, lack of same, partnership, solitude, solace, networking, reading, film, escape, no life, overworked, empty nest, single, alone, loneliness, poem, poetry

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