I’ll Feel My Way Through Life Like Braille.
I feel like the more I know about what can happen, the more I fear and try to orient my life around making sure those things don’t happen.
Browsing Tag:
butterfly
Hello from the Chrysalis.
Hello from the chrysalis. It doesn’t get easier. Recovery is quicker, but there is no outrunning the unavoidable. The cycle continues.
None Can Know What Gets Lost and Found at the Crossroads.
We do know that to be alive is to age, and aging is inherently a losing proposition to which we must surrender, with grace or not.
Transformation: If You’re Enjoying It, You’re Doing It Wrong.
Transformation isn’t something you choose, it chooses you. Considering what’s involved, no caterpillar in its right mind would ever choose to become a butterfly.
To the Magically Unrooted: Reasons We Belong.
You may feel like an outsider here, yet you are the one at whom children smile, with a knowing glance. You’re part of their world.
Summits. {poetry}
Summits. They are always just beyond the next ridge. Just beyond this next heartache. Just beyond the unbearable loneliness. Just beyond the empty loss.
Butterfly. {poetry}
In the name of love, the most potent craving known to man,
the soul surges, agape, even though your mind requires its physical manifestation.
16 Ways You Can Create Your Rainbow After the Storm.
What happens when life doesn’t turn out how you planned, hoped for, dreamed of, and maybe, even paid for? What happens when you don’t get the rainbow baby? This is my story. And it is all of our stories, because we will all have storms we must survive. Life is beautiful yet hard; we will all ...
Open Swim. {fiction}
Thomas was closer now. She could almost feel his breath. She wondered how he had moved so quickly without her noticing.
“They’re beautiful,” Thomas said, “and that’s why. We’re not different. You run here to be quiet. I’m quiet all day because I’m tired of running.”
Charlotte was breathing ...
Being Reborn As The Butterfly That I Am.
I realize now, looking back at my journey of transformation, which felt more as a transmutation -- a death/rebirth process -- what I went through was an energetic, alchemical process that changed my whole consciousness and, consequently, my self-identity, the process akin to what a caterpillar ...