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The promises we make ourselves… I go to a strange withdrawn and almost broody place when I’m around family or “parents,” and my goddess...
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Sven Ellirand
- Jul 31
- 6 min
Waking Up In Taos
I have heard so many beautiful things about this place and the energy here. I feel it, but I have felt a beautiful energy in most of the...
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Sven Ellirand
- Jul 24
- 7 min
Familie Zuerst
It has been over two years since I worked with anyone in the creative world. All of my creativity has been isolated to my partner, who...
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Sven Ellirand
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
Entangled
The only way to solve your problems is to realize that there are no problems. Our inflamed egos create everything in our perception, and...
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Sven Ellirand
- Jul 26, 2021
- 6 min
Dormiveglia
These last couple years have been a bit traumatic, capped off by the last couple months feeling like all the chakras in my body have...
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Sven Ellirand
- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Other Side of Patriarchy
I am incapable of asking for help in a world that demands I be strong enough to be fine without it. This year has been so hard for so...
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Sven Ellirand
- Dec 27, 2020
- 1 min
... To Injury.
We had Papa Bear cremated, but we wanted to say goodbye to his body beforehand, so we had a little viewing, which turned into a number of...
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Sven Ellirand
- Dec 26, 2020
- 6 min
Remember, Remember...
….. it had to be the fifth of November. We had just spent a week in Nebraska visiting my wife’s family, in this year where I have...
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Sven Ellirand
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
Existential Vacuum
To generalize the way people choose to live their lives, there are two basic types of people in the world (in that cliché way): those who...
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Sven Ellirand
- Jul 18, 2020
- 8 min
The Dark Void Between Stories
I have obviously taken a big step back from all of this, but am so very grateful that the seed planted in Nadia grew into her beautiful...
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Nadia
- Jun 26, 2020
- 8 min
Naked in Nature: A Call for Healing
I need to tell you something about this day in mid-January: the day I went out to the place where they were taken, I didn't know I would...
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Sven Ellirand
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
South Ridge (3E08 via 5S11)
Our house from here... The journey of beautiful places I've been putting off since I was 12 continues. This week, the notorious South...
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Sven Ellirand
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Tierisch Gut
“The bear’s message for modern people is to remind them of their roots, which they are beginning to long to understand but have nearly...
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Sven Ellirand
- May 12, 2020
- 3 min
Appetite
More than the work, I have always appreciated the beautiful souls that I've found on this journey. Ana wrote a little thing the other...
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Sven Ellirand
- May 6, 2020
- 2 min
Cedar Springs (4E17)
One more beautiful day with my amazing little family, wondering how I got here, yet enjoying every little moment. It is nice to finally...
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Sven Ellirand
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Devil's Slide (3E05)
... and the view of our little town, nestled in the San Jacinto Mountains, from up there. While this is a nice general view of this...
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Sven Ellirand
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Osasis
I have been praised for my creative relentlessness, but it exists to such a fault that I don’t really know how to interact with people on...
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Sven Ellirand
- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Beautiful Hypocrisy
This is way outside my character, but I’ve seemed to be drifting more and more in that direction for over a year in search of my...
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Sven Ellirand
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
Lockdown: Day 2
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~ Sophocles … and a father to love. I am one to see the current state of affairs...
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Sam
- Feb 21, 2020
- 3 min
What Do I Do With My Hands?
So I started this wanting to write some rambling post about my complicated relationship with other women and the idea of womanhood...
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