I wont accept your rules, and I don’t recognize your authority. These roots run too deep for salutes and pressured conformity. My wings are ancient and carry me far above all that noise – out of reach for rules, and controls, and tin soldier boys. I won’t bow to your flags or dance to your […]
For every heartbreak there will be healing. For everything broken there will be a new seed planted, and from those seeds a garden will grow. For each loss there will be a blessing added. For every fear there is a hope. Hope. The water that opens seeds. The balm that heals our wounds. The birth […]
You can plow the earth, leave lifeless hills, fill dumpsters painted army green. You can don your masks and silly guns, head out to parks, and make a scene. You can twist the prophets’ holy words, say your prayers like show and tell. You can disparage dissent, lie, cheat, steal; you can curse and arrest […]
We’ve all heard it. Read it in books. Seen it plastered on tee shirts, even, like a three word mantra that’s relatable to just about everyone, and therefore is quite marketable. Let it go. What those three words don’t tell you is that it’s not as straightforward as it sounds. It is. But it isn’t. […]
You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. And you don’t believe that sentence until you do. Once upon a time I thought that my partial attention and long distance prayers meant caring. I didn’t live there after all, in those countries where people were hungry, or scared, where children found themselves alone without […]
Why go searching for a piece of flint when you can just snap your fingers and light the hearth? That’s where I landed as it relates to dating and romance. I know I am no trailblazer here, and in hindsight I’m surprised it took me this long. But now that I’m finally here, I understand […]
things that won’t make the news today: the low-growing thrush covered in clusters of flowers, the lavender-spiked grasses, overlooking like towers things that had nothing at all to say: the wind that teased at the water’s surface for hours and the soft, cool clattering of this afternoon’s showers things that didn’t alert or trend: zebra-striped […]
For years, they’ve held us back. Pushed us down. Stolen our voices. Our power. They. The false dilemmas. The dualities. The accepted belief that we must be one or the other. The narrative that screams ‘you cannot be both’. For generations we’ve accepted the idea that we must choose one or the other. We must […]
No more working harder. No more carrying heavier. No more chasing the carrot on a stick. No more accepting every armload of expectations and rules and responsibilities that they hand me in the subconscious hope for some meager scraps of validation. No more living like my purpose is to become resilient and my happiness must […]
I’m rebuilding. But this time it’s different. This time I’m building a home within me first. I’ve already tore down the framework, pulled up the floorboards, and thrown out the trash. But this time I’m not looking outside myself for anything to start again. I’m not asking anything of anyone but myself. This time I’m […]
Sometimes, after some inner growth, I feel as if I’ve found my way back. I’m struck by the sense that I was lost, and I’m only realizing it now that I’ve returned. I suppose it feels as if I was lost because each new level feels so familiar. And by contrast, the places I started […]
A message for my neurodivergent friends out there: Just paying attention is a practice in resiliency right now. If you are busy processing the onslaught of information, checking facts, finding your center, making plans – if you’re so busy that you don’t yet have the words, or haven’t yet found your method, you are not […]
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