The Wisdom of Innocence
All in all our mornings are quite peaceful. Which feels like a luxury when the world around us feels unending chaos. They’re earlier than I would like, but the darkness of early dawn offers a stillness in a world, otherwise kinetic, that I choose to savor as a human—much less a mother. As book lovers, we’ve made it a point to read to him early. Starting with classics: The Rainbow Fish, Where The Wild Things Are, and Goodnight Moon. He’d often lose interest, or fall asleep, quite quickly. This one is different.
The Dream: How moments become meaning
All too often, we rush to the next milestone. Scored by “I can’t wait,” “wait until,” and “just wait.” As though the present is a waiting room between where you were and wish you could be. Is it possible that the dream we’re waiting for is hiding in brief moments of breath?
The Unfolding: Why curiosity beats resolutions in a life still being written
What if the magic of a new year is in the unknowing? The permission for whimsy. The beauty in the unfolding.
The Human Builder Credo
In one door, told what’s “wrong with you,” out the next, told what’s “broken within you,” and in another to purchase your pills. The louder the internal conflict, the more muted the external manipulation becomes. The more full the “doctor’s” books, the less care and attention can be offered, and the more can be charged. If the doctor’s unsure, then surely there’s a high-ticket test that can determine the cure.
There is Time Now
There’s time now To listen to the birds To discern their words As the echoes bounce Off the walls of my house. There is time now. There’s time now to be part Of this whirlwind Of a world As it spins There is time now. There’s time now To confess What’s been in your heart, […]
To Be Soft
To be soft I want to be soft not hard Like warmed butter not shard. I want to feel the layers of armor peel off my back as the shell begins to crack only to reveal softened scars where the shards once were. The armor meant to defend Had barbed its wire Inward. Put the […]