Words Try to Rescue: Remembering Adam. {poetry}
Poetry is both conduit and container of every emotion. It's almost as if enough words can make a kind of sense from a terrible loss. It can't.
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We Are The Capables: Words of Resilience for the Orphaned. {poetry}
Not capable. Not able. Not reliable. Not acceptable. I cupped my hands over my ears. Still, the mocking continued. Mocking words.
The Emotional Impact of Words on Our Mental Health.
Most of the time, physical scars can heal, but the emotional impact of degrading and dehumanizing words can last for years.
What Lives Below Words: Improve Your Silence.
True wisdom dwells in inarticulate spaces. Knowing this truth makes it easier to be more intentional about our use of words.
Passage of Pieces: We Sewed with Our Words. {poetry}
I asked him how he perceived the beauty of creation from his place of darkness. With few words, he showed me that light can exist as much within as without.
So Many Beautiful Words. {poetry}
It is so dark inside my head. I can’t see. I pretend, I speak, I look, I live, wrestling those words. One foot on their throat, but begging for their mercy.
Serenading Words: Ode to Reconnecting with Creativity.
Creation grants me the space to capture the words that had eluded me at the time they were dying to creep out from hiding.
It’s Not a Sex Problem, It’s a Society Problem.
The continued blaming will only prolong the problem, because the more divided we become, the more difficult it will be to create a different future.
Lost in a Sea of Reservation. {poetry}
Do compounds and verbs melt into a runny sea of ambiguity? Are fragments of reels and jabs of jaunty whim unsaid the whispering voices in our heads?
Keep Going: A Love Letter to Late 20-Something’s.
As I settle into my late 20's and excitedly anticipate getting older, I feel the need to write a love letter to all of you and myself.