The Desperate and Dreamless.
{poetry}
When You Are Sad.
Stop trying to make good what just plain isn’t. All the cheerful messages in all the world will not godmother you out of sadness. There is no magic potion, no fairies collecting the dust of you. But there is a time. There is a later place where your open wound will heal with new skin and new ...
You Look Familiar, Have We Met Before?
Let’s not waste any more time. The time is now, the time for this momentary familiarity. If you let me, I want to slide into your very being.
The Yoga Of Freedom — An Interview With An Ex-Con.
“How do you know an ex-con when you see one? Do they look any different from anyone else walking down the street?” These are the questions Robert posed to me as we stood in the parking lot alongside Crissy Field on a beautiful spring day, with the timeless Golden Gate Bridge glistening behind us.
Behind The Velvet Rope: Fear Vs. Spirituality.
We have societal rules based on perfectionism and obedience to an invisible presence of higher control. Calculating decisions based in self-hatred, ridicule, and even well-intended love begins to set fear-based consequences in motion. We have learned to self-medicate with dangerous emotions, ...
Saying Goodbye Without Breaking Apart {poetry}
Your home is in my heart;
kept safe by silent strength.
I’ll hold your gifts within me;
til time forgets its length.