Wild She trudged through the dirtFeet bare against the earthWith a warm, soft breezeCaressing her cheeks.Coming home to yourself is messy,She thought;She feltVolcanic eruptions of emotionBirthing a clarityShe’d been seeking all her life.Sometimes she’d strayedA bit too far onto the path,Mistaking her lifeFor that of someone else +The rocks stung her toesUntil she remembered. She […]
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Stamina, uncertainty, and how to find your joy again
Stamina. I think that is my word for this season of life we are moving through at the moment, this season of uncertainty and challenge and change. I’ve found myself saying ‘the most’ and ‘the longest’ quite frequently of late. “This is the longest I’ve stayed in one place, the longest I haven’t traveled.” “This […]
Tenderness, a revolution: a poem about love
To love is an incredibly revolutionary act. When we think of love, we often think of it as soft, and in our world, ‘soft’ has become synonymous with ‘incompetent.’ We hate on the soft spaces of our bodies, we value grit and resiliency above all else, and we ask men if they’ve ‘gone soft’ on […]
a daring conversation with Courage + Fear (poem)
What does it mean to commit, truly? What does it mean to fully commit to Life? What does it mean to commit, and what are we so afraid of? Why are we so afraid of Life? Questions, Questions, Questions. Sometimes it seems that all I have these days are Questions. There are more Questions than […]