Courtney Pounds
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Passionately discovering how to stand proudly beside my truth, instead of hiding behind the fiction, through writing.
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2050: We and Our Shadows
Back in my day at the turn of the 21st century, when a grownup said, ‘back in my day,’ us kids ran the other way. Tales from the 1900’s were always followed by a story about walking up hills both ways, accompanied by arduous accounts about doing so in bare feet during blizzards as they carved tunnels while carrying sacks too heavy for the doctors they didn’t have to fix the broken backs they’d arrive with if they were lucky enough to get to the wherever they were going to uphill both ways, in the first place.
By Courtney Pounds12 months ago in Futurism
The Pounds' Sterling. Top Story - January 2025.
This is the last picture I took of my mom before the doctors started playing Mrs. Potato Head with her through brain surgeries and radiation that killed everything except, her. That’s why it's on my childless cat lady fridge as one of my favorite moments, even though we had many, many favorite moments since that picture.
By Courtney Poundsabout a year ago in Photography
Kelsey The Butterfly
Depending on whom you ask, the birth of yours truly was an enigma of life’s greatest blessing and worst nightmare scenario, in a quicker time span than humans are meant to process. Certainly, a situation that’s taken a lifetime for my dad and me, to try to process.
By Courtney Poundsabout a year ago in Motivation
