When I Let Go…

Friday, August 6th, 2018 I dreamt about my grandmother’s house again. The small home that seems to sprawl in my mind…the drawers and cupboards spilling their contents out if even slightly provoked. The entire building felt like a time capsule, since it was hard for my...

When You Speak Your Truth

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 “If someone backs away when you speak your truth…let them.” ~ Jennifer Posada “some people, when they hear your story, contract. others, upon hearing your story, expand. and this is how you know.” ~ nayyirah...

Better

Monday, March 12th, 2018 If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill… – Rumi The winter that I was seventeen was strange and long…as the season went on the tendrils of darkness reached further into my friends and I’s hearts, but even then I knew...

To the Great Below…

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 “From the great above, She turned her ear to the great below…” ~from translations of the myth of Goddess Innana When I was a little girl, where I’d visit my grandmother in the South, there were abandoned railroad...

My Great Undoing

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 It wasn’t new… I had been undone so many times before.  My dress rehearsals were profound and comprehensive.  They were shows unto their own, not mere shells of the one to come.  But there is something to be said for my great...

On Letting it All Crumble Down…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 When I was twenty-two, I lived just a few miles from this beautiful archway, a gem in the middle of the deep blue Mediterranean.  It was like a dream rising out of the sea…a gateway to another world.  It was enormous, defied description,...

Broken Hearts and Burning Stars

Friday, March 31st, 2017 I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe I’ve been out picking nettles in the cold spring woods. I...

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