Goal Achieved: My Life is Fiction

1/23/2024 closing the gap

Jan 25, 2024

**Finally — someone else acknowledges our life is fiction**

Hello Readers! It’s been an interesting few months hearing the discussion from all of you in relation to the podcasts I’ve been putting out. We’ve looked at several ideas for layers of the truth in fiction, and I wanted to compile some of the reader recommendations from the comments. I’ll be back with an update on my…

a year ago · 29 likes · 23 comments · Dr. Kathleen Waller

**Please repeat after us: OUR LIVES ARE A FICTION**

At least one friend passed in the last 48 hours — How lucky we are — it isn’t more

Much love,

Con/Jur/d

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Our Life is Fiction
Con/Jur/d, 1/25/2024

From begging bowl
to a dietitian’s portion control
our life is a series of fictions
without conflict, it is difficult
to write a story

easy to write a poem
if we avoid picking and choosing
although it’s hard to do

chopping brussel sprouts on the fitted
wooden cutting board, the sound is 
lovely, even the garbage can opening
or the patter of rain, outside
although, the shhh of central heating
says:

temporal not spatial distinction

create a taste

of quiet

no room for fiction
between the edge of a Japanese knife
and green leaves parting

gate(less)

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