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March 23, 2026

A close-up image of a fingertip tapping a glowing smartphone screen. Around the finger, small white envelopes float and blur across the screen, suggesting emails being sorted through. fresh start Text: There’s Nothing Special About a Year, Poetry, Philip Athans

Published by Philip Athans at March 23, 2026

There’s Nothing Special About a Year

This exercise of deleting a year’s worth of emails that I do every January…

January 11, 2026

Steaming coffee in a warm, inviting brown mug resting on a colorful red, brown, black, and cream tablerunner on a dark wood table. A creamer pitcher of the same warm brown glaze is in the background, along with a blurry window with greenery present. TEXT: Coffee Ritual - Blog Series: Positivity Corner - Poetry - Rachel Turney

Published by The MockingOwls and Rachel Turney at January 11, 2026

Coffee Ritual

Always the same large cups, mine from Fretboard and his from Trailhead. Always the same dance of the mugs, clinking the ceramic, the scalding first sip. The coffee is a ritual of purpose, of togetherness. Of starting a day, and taking on a responsibility for myself and another person. Something I chose and continue to choose.