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A Mother’s Love

My grandmother was born a fatherless child and her mother was confined in a sanitarium. She grew up in an orphanage and in the homes of less-than-loving relatives. She was abused. She was unloved by those who should have loved her, unsheltered by those who should have sheltered her. But she was a woman ofContinue reading “A Mother’s Love”

First Love

It took just one conversation for me. One unassuming but deeply felt exchange between two souls. The first time I really fell in love, that’s all it took. One amazing conversation and a hug goodbye. And I walked through the back alleys toward home, past dumpsters of trash, unmarked doors, and murky rain puddles, butContinue reading “First Love”

“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”

“People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.Continue reading ““Is it possible that there are no coincidences?””

Gratitude and Desire

Why does it never feel like quite enough? Enough money, enough connection, enough time, enough energy? If we would only trust, we would see that it’s always exactly enough, perfectly enough, more than enough. Perhaps our feelings of “lacking” are always directly proportionate to that which we’re not fully feeling grateful for. When you doContinue reading “Gratitude and Desire”

Love Manifest

Dear heart, you’re still strange to me. Still unknown. But I hope you can feel that magnetic tug as you beat against your ribcage. I can feel it here inside. The vacuum it creates when it leans forward. Come and find me. In finding yourself, in trusting all the things that you already are and always haveContinue reading “Love Manifest”

Liquid Nature

I’ve always asked myself, “Am I strong enough?” I often come off as the little, blonde, sweet one. Never hurt a fly. Do as you are told. One day I finally knew that my strength is not steely or loud or large. My strength is water. Flexible, flowing, unfettered. Steady, persistant, gently eroding. A quiet,Continue reading “Liquid Nature”

Shine Your Light

It’s messy. It’s up and it’s down. But when you feel yourself returning to yourself, the self you knew when you were a carefree child, but also a new version of yourself that you’ve never known, that is discovery. That is joy and aliveness and peace. I believe that we will be many versions ofContinue reading “Shine Your Light”