Unlearning: Take Two
If I am ever to reach my goal of becoming a Good Human then I need to become more aware of how my words and actions affect others.
(Im)Purity
"Oh Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." - Saint Augustine No, not yet, not today Today I want to take you in my arms and plant kisses of fire on your neck
Return to Mobile Redux
Why would nature give us a self destruct mode anyway?
One Pearl Longer
On the eve of each new year I reluctantly don a necklace of melancholic nostalgia the significance of which envelops me. Strung from pearls of wisdom gathered by my former […]
Past Present
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald How bright these lights that shine now. Here. In this moment. Blinding […]
Personal Update – November 8, 2018
Surrender isn’t the same as giving up but it sure can feel like it. The insurance adjusting never paid off. Thousands of dollars, 6 licenses, 32 certifications, over 600 hours […]
Released
Too long ago A lifetime Millennia it seems I sheltered my heart And bound my flesh In hopeful anticipation I wore the numb pain Of isolation Like a badge […]
Waving the White Flag
Wherein the author struggles with the difference between "surrender" and "giving up."
Life
Almost a year ago I chose to move to Mobile to pursue the possibility of a committed relationship. I learned quite a bit about love from that relationship and from […]
Fierce grace/fruitful darkness
I fear one day I will be swallowed by the things that threaten to annihilate and obliterate the man I’ve worked so hard not to be that in accomplishing […]
We all have them
We all have them: Good days Bad days Days when we want to save the world Days when we want to see it burn Days when the lightness in our […]
Acceptance
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we […]
Resurrection Fern
I see you there Withering in the branches of the life you cling to Withdrawn to your own shade To protect your roots Where you wait Patiently For the nourishing […]
Change happens
Change is the only real constant in the Universe and it happens whether or not I want it to. It is a guarantee. If I allow myself to be swept […]
Evening prayer
Divine Mother, Sacred Creator, you who guide us with pain and joy and fill our souls with love, our bodies with life, and our minds with dreams, I offer myself […]
Life is a Journey
“People are hypocrites” she proclaims. “No one lives the life they want.” I have said those same words myself, or something similar, though it probably contained expletives and self […]