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Posts by Faith-Antion

Faith Antion is a marketing professional, a survivor of both art and business school, a photographer, daydreamer, and aspiring beekeeper. She posts some of her longer thoughts to her blog, The Sound of Swarming, her shorter thoughts to Twitter, and her visual thoughts to Flickr.

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Letting Go of Your Past Suffering to Feel Peaceful and Free

“Letting go give us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

I stood alone in what had been my childhood bedroom, staring at the dresser with a familiar discomfort. My fingers clutched at the handle of the second drawer from the top and pulled hard, straining from the weight of its contents.

I reached in with both hands, the drawer with its quarter inch plywood base teetering dangerously on the edge of the frame, and lifted them out, one by one.

Unicorns, fairies, rainbows, mystical maidens, all disappeared as I placed the journals into the …