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  • Home
    • Contact
  • Healing Menu of Services
    • Energy Healing Therapies >
      • Angel Energy
      • Chakra Balancing
      • Pranic Healing
      • Energy Coaching Sessions
      • About Healing Energy >
        • Understanding Energy & the Healer
        • Healing is a Choice
    • Emotional Wellness >
      • Emotional Wellness Coaching >
        • Emotional Wellness Coaching
        • Emotional Concepts & Tools >
          • Consistency Creates Stability
          • Acceptance: Is to Receive
          • 8 Steps to Renew Your Path
          • 3 Powerful Purposes
          • The Gifts of Forgiveness
          • Self-Efficacy
      • Emotional Release Technique
      • Chakra Activation Technique >
        • Chakra Activation Technique
        • Energy Concepts & Tools
    • Whole Body Restoration >
      • Raindrop Energy Technique
      • Manual Lymphatic Drainage
      • Gentle Touch Yoga
      • Essential Oil Spotlight >
        • Oils for Immune Boost
        • Oils for Physical Wellbeing
        • Oils for Emotional Balance >
          • Valor
    • Healing Testimonials
  • Gifts of Gratitude
    • Principles Passions & Purpose
    • Healing Gift Certificates
    • 100 Days of Appreciation >
      • DAY 1- 80's Music
      • DAY 2- Connection
      • Day 3- A Snail's Pace
    • Meaningful Conversations Podcast
  • *Inner Beauty Blog*
  • Jennifer's Musings
    • Jennifer's Author Bio
    • Jennifer's Written Works >
      • Poems >
        • New Poems >
          • Imagine
          • The Morning Quiet
          • On Why I Read Poetry
          • On Art
          • Our Song
          • Everything
          • Moonshine
          • Escape
          • Smiling Eyes
          • Mercy
          • Hey, Dad. Do You Remember Me?
        • Poems from Passion >
          • Part I >
            • When the Heart Beats
            • Let Me View Life- The Way the Heart Feels..
            • Little Girl
            • The Light
            • When I Called Her Name
            • Betwixt the Stars
            • Cherry Blossom's Bloom
            • The Smell of Rain
          • Part II >
            • Kissing Contusion
            • Inside Each Other's Kiss
            • Butterflies Break-
            • She Was Mad-
            • Fire and Ice
            • The Trace of Night
          • Part III >
            • The Moment Before Janet Arrived
            • She Didn't Know
            • I Pretend
            • Collapsed Star
            • My Heart Bleeds...
            • Love Divided
            • In Loving Memory
            • You Never Said Goodbye...
            • Life Teaches in Mysterious Ways
            • I Learned I was Valuable
            • I Choose to Burn
            • Good Love Doesn't Hurt
          • Part IV >
            • Daring Hearts
            • The Tides
            • She Fell
            • Your Presence
            • I'm Hungry-
            • The Seeker
            • Lady Compassion Waits
        • Love Notes... >
          • Good Morning, My Love...
          • Tell Me
          • Lean Back
          • All Through the Night...
          • Your Eyes
          • Every Heartbeat
          • Thanksgiving
        • Be Beautiful Poems >
          • Let Me
          • Look Up!
          • Water
          • In-Joy!
          • Amethyst
          • Call Me
      • Short Stories >
        • The Lady and the Sea
        • Olly and Mildred
        • Super FLy!
        • 1713 Maplewood Drive >
          • Official Teaser
        • Divine Grace
      • Inner Beauty Quotes >
        • Heart Series >
          • The Wind
          • The Heart
          • Connected Kisses
          • Beauty
          • Sweetness
          • Love Story
          • Emotion
          • Keep Close to your Heart
          • I Love to Feel
          • Saxophone Song
          • When the Lover Speaks
          • Shed My Flesh
          • Tongue Tied
        • Healing Series >
          • Break Me
          • The Process of Healing
          • True Nature of a Healer
          • Healing
          • In Order to Heal
          • Heal Yourself First
          • No Shame in Pain
          • Your Needs Come First
          • Heal the Self - Heal the World
        • Compassion Series >
          • Surrender
          • Love Yourself
          • Be Kind with Yourself
          • To Deeply Nurture Yourself
          • Feel What You Feel
          • Self-compassion is Courageous
          • To Surrender is to Accept
        • Creative Series >
          • Go with the Flow
          • Creativity is the Greatest Form of Conception-
          • A Writer
          • Good Poetry
        • Wisdom Series >
          • Taste the Truth
          • Life Happens
          • Creative Consciousness
          • Seek the Sensations Inside First
          • Allowing
          • Palms to Prayer-
          • Teach Other's Well
          • Sometimes... Life Steps In
          • Baby Steps
          • If You Don't Let Go and Grow-
          • It's Okay to Walk Away..
          • In Being One-
          • Opportunities
          • It's interesting...
        • Meditation Series >
          • Be the Example
          • Our Bodies Are Fluid-
          • Meditation is not just closing the eyes-
          • To Be Steady in Chaos
          • Silence
          • Awareness
          • Seeds of Light
        • Inner Strength Series >
          • Leave Your Mark
          • Trials
          • Those Who Strike-
          • Change Happens
          • Make Waves
          • Knowing Yourself
          • Courage 1
          • Courage 2
          • Strength
          • Transformation Doesn't Have to Hurt...
          • Embrace the Trials
          • Be Your Own Hero
          • Personal Power
          • Inspiration
          • Structure
      • Meditation Musings >
        • 1st Chakra >
          • Root Invocation
          • Root Chakra
          • Your Roots
          • Trust
          • Foundation
        • 2nd Chakra >
          • 2nd Chakra Invocation
          • Sacral Shaped Chakra
          • The Womb
          • Rebirth
          • Comfort
          • Care for the Soul
          • Sweetness
          • Vulnerability
          • Allowing 1
          • Allowing 2
          • Passion and Purpose
          • What Makes You a Powerful Experince
        • 3rd Chakra >
          • Stand in Your Power
          • Be Light
          • JoY!
        • 4th Chakra >
          • Heart Innvocation
          • Unstruck
          • 3 Fold Flame of Forgiveness
          • When the Heart Beats
          • The Power of Vulnerability
          • Heart Vision
          • Heartfelt Motion
        • 5th Chakra >
          • Truth
          • Listen
          • Silence
        • 6th Chakra >
          • Awareness
          • Shedding to Shift
        • 7th Chakra >
          • I AM
    • Jennifer's Books >
      • Be Beautiful >
        • About the Book
        • BUY BE BEAUTIFUL
      • The Many Tails of Luck-shmee >
        • About the Book
        • BUY THE MANY TAILS
        • Event Pictures
        • Lakshmi the Cat
      • Poems from Passion >
        • About the Book
    • Reviews
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Was the ominous sound, a distinct and audible pulse of the Grandfather clock towering behind her and peering over her shoulders in the dim shadows of the room. Its grandeur, an overbearing presence rich and alive with history looming up against her tiny frame. She stood only 5 feet and 1 inch, she was petite in structure yet skillfully agile in form. Angie was the surviving antagonist in this lifeless, living-room. A barren space devoid of satisfaction except for the crack, crack, crackling sounds of the fireplace flaming alive, buried deep in the core of an old brick faced, open-mouthed furnace with chips in the cherry wood mantle. A grand house of fire that was once touched with rich, red and brown tones that has since faded in spirit. Now, black soot leaves its burnt markings splattered across the belly of faded bricks with only peeks of white innocence behind the bars of a rusted black grate, the punishment of such insolence. A viscous cycle of transformation into a black hole of pure darkness like a gaping pit in your stomach or even worse, like the open mouth to hell. 
            Angie sacrificed yet another log into the fire and without a thought, she tossed the well-seasoned red oak inside this circle of heat activating vibrant flames that grew now with lustful excitement. A feeling seduced by its heat, she stood still with brooding eyes watching the log burn through the hot fire slowly, patiently waiting for its signature screams. She got hit in the face with a thick and distinct yet indescribable odor and just underneath the scent, ascended the red oaks anguish. She heard traces of smoky voices behind her, faint hisses and crackles quietly shrieking in and out of darkness. Sheer shades of pure black draped alongside her body and rose up the cream-colored walls with flickers of shadows, casting flashes of amber light that lit and extinguished rapidly, onto the empty walls standing tall behind her. This phantom muse artfully conducting its opus in fast paced, even bombarding tempos and other times, simply moving slow and sensual. 
     For a brief moment, she felt warm and entranced burrowed deep inside her loneliness. 
She watched the fire shadows fight out their dramatic tale and she thought, was this a sign from the divine or a gathering of menacing apparitions casting their spells, debating against the others position, just before fading in and out of existence in this soulless room? 
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