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stand still. Pretend
you’re a plant. Stand
still and wait quietly. Hold out your hand.
Lavanya Acharya
Jul 41 min read


odyssey
I'm searching for you, mother in the roots that ground my feet and in the arbor of my fingers reaching up into your light. Surely, it must be you in the core of my twisting trunk that has turned this way and that in yearning? I search for you, mother but only find ghosts I left behind; caught in the wake of my hungry quest they join me in my searching. Some, with empty eyes and some with frozen hearts, but all with lithe and ready limbs aflame and burning. I search for yo
Lavanya Acharya
Jun 171 min read


Fleeting Epiphany
What would I do without the people around me? I could not survive alone in the wild. Not many would, and that is what makes us— the willingness of the strong to hold up the weak; the desire to tend to the sick, and for the Voiceless, to Speak. I am not lost. I am loved. I am loved. I am not a burden. I am not a burden. I am Human: a being who can take without giving. For as one hand holds me up here, There, I birth a child or wipe a tear. See, life is not a transac
Lavanya Acharya
Dec 7, 20251 min read


On the implementation of privacy
The doors to my master bathroom are just that—doors. Plural. Double. There are two of them. I’ve seen them referred to as French doors. ...
Lavanya Acharya
Jun 2, 20252 min read


A Rare Kind of Ordinary
I'm afraid of the things That make me suffer— bright lights noise vivid colors smells movement: At the park with the kids...
Lavanya Acharya
Nov 17, 20241 min read
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