I’ve never really fit into any group that well. Maybe that’s part unhealed trauma, part innate oddness, and part superpower. My seat has always been with the misfits. That’s where I belong. With the loners and the rebels, the broken and awkward and divergent ones. With the people who couldn’t fit the box if they […]
Oh, but I am so very much more than a collection of pretty words. I’m tear stained and crumpled poetry; stirring, profound, rubbish, absurd. I’m tranquil shades of arcadian blue, a hawk soaring over wide open skies; demure and charcoal grey backdrops, and storms raging from swollen eyes. I am the stench of decayed, rotting […]
Don’t you know by now that every love poem is about you? Do you not yet see that every song, every hastily scribbled line, every passionate rendition is for you as much as it’s for anyone? Love isn’t a one-on-one thing, something that can be kept between one giver and one receiver – because in […]
One year of the elements – introduced and induced, one by one. Three hundred sixty-five lessons, beneath three hundred and sixty-five suns. The wind was the first among them to rise, to beckon, whispering my name, as a herald, a signal, a caution, a sign, that nothing would ever be the same. Next to call […]
Mid-life ashes are feeding the garden beds. Surgically cutting at each of the capitalist threads. One by one, the habits loosen as men exit center stage. Chain-links are flying; no wonder we’re taught to never age. Truth washes in – sometimes a rain, sometimes a flood. A hushed and feared sanctity, like tears or monthly […]
Sing me that song, the one only you know. The one that turns the skies to a chorus. I listen, with the humility of a thousand stories lived, to your love that trills behind every line. Enamored by the gentle force of your breath, I’ll wait, held in this present by a single note. Here, […]
To the woman who is just starting to wake up, please understand that you can’t wish yourself back to sleep. Even if you could manage that kind of dissonance for a while, it would only lead to more sorrow upon your inevitable reawakening. What you are starting to see right now is not new. It […]
I know that we’re going to make it. I know because my co-worker came in with happy news, and we hugged with tears in our eyes. Because two college kids walked across the street – one with pink hair and the other with purple. And following closely behind was another carrying a canvas – a […]
tight-rope rope walking, balancing extremes. still, too few are talking. still too many screams. love, compassion, grace. are we in this together? but to see the anguish on her face; to know that trauma lasts forever. no, this world is not darker than I once knew it to be. I’m just forced to look farther […]
The shared stories of our past are meant to be told. Even if they make us uncomfortable. Even if we think we’ve learned what needed to be learned. Even if we know we haven’t. Stories are meant to be told. Because healing doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in phases. Each one building upon […]
There are bigger things happening here. The revolution is energetic. And it is in full swing. And with all the chaos, that can be easy to lose sight of. The narcissists are being revealed, and they are cracking. The flying monkeys are fleeing, and for some the introspection has already begun. The scapegoats are making […]
Thank you for this day, for this life, for this breath. Thank you for the reminders, like glimmers of sun on rain-soaked leaves. And thank you for all of the journeys, big and small, that have brought me this far. Thank you for the love. Thank you for the protection. Thank you for the support. […]
They thought we’d willingly squeeze into that old corset of victimhood – politely smiling while we desperately try to catch our breath. But healed women are far too large to fold ourselves into hems and muzzles and cages even if we tried. See, we aren’t starving ourselves anymore. We aren’t small and well kept. And […]
This year there will be no resolutions. At least not the kind I used to set. Because this year doesn’t center the task. This year centers the being, with faith that the tasks will naturally follow. This year I’m settling in to my Knowing. Last year brought the practice runs and curve balls, and now […]
The most important thing you can do is tend to the fire. Don’t spend all your daylight warding off dangers or hastily gathering up tribes. Those things will happen on their own when the flames are burning bright. Gather up your kindling – leaves, poems, sorrows, ideals, and other combustible things – and use them […]
I opened my mouth to speak and fire came out. Then came that age old response. The voice in my head that said stop. Don’t speak in anger. Don’t allow yourself to feel anger. Anger doesn’t help. Anger just triggers the other person. Being angry means that you’re doing something wrong. You’re looking at it […]
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