Domesticity: Let Us Share Our Struggles with One Another.
We listen to the storyline that 'this is the way it’s always been' repeat over and over... Until we can impress it upon one another in secret circles.
The Lady and the Bird. {poetry}
She loved that bird
you understand
The lady had her wings clipped too
by a heartless world
that did not take the time
to understand her dreams
A Gift in Every Experience: The Wake-Up Call That Changed My Life.
I like to see each experience as an initiation that will bring us closer to our purpose. This is a hard truth to swallow.
Honoring Great Grandpa By Being Their Brave Selves.
I was hesitant when it came to their desire to attend great grandpa's memorial, but they wished to... say a proper goodbye.
4 Things That Happened After I Met My Twin Flame.
I can have a partner who is not my twin flame, yet be totally amazing. He, in my case, can be a reflection for me of where I want to grow and evolve.
Little White Bungalow: The Reality of What Would Be.
I had been feeling sad and hurt by a false reality. If I had known then what I know and saw now, I wouldn’t have put so much on us, on him.
A Story About Top-Down Forays into Campaigns for Social and Economic Justice.
The Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice selected me to represent my state at the launch of the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign
Winning with Ourselves.
We’ve confused pain and losing ourselves with love, belonging and connection. We've set ourselves up to make winning with ourselves incredibly difficult.
Let Go of Letting Go.
What if the real work is not to let go, but to carefully cradle what is left, to make a space within yourself for the expansion of your aching heart?
Accepting Anger as Alchemy.
After anger, we are no longer in denial. When the disappointment is digested through, we will have to grieve what we had needed but did not get.