smooth, swollen, and scouredlike pebbles in river bedsmemories I hold dearly populate my head one or two are disfigured—rough, metamorphic, and wornlarger-grained and ponderous;might have crystals at their core those I…
We live. We learn. We remember. We grow. No redos but if you do it with your whole heart you become the best version of yourself. That’s my hope for you. xo
A Novelinee for the Ninth of the Ninth month of the year. Enjoy.
If wooden gates could talk, what stories would they tell? These stories are also stored in hearts that never forget. Hope you enjoy the poem that came through me today. Happy shelling.
Here's a Mirrored Refrain in the Villanelle form (hopefully)
Friendship is what keeps me going. "Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” ~ Francesco Guicciardini
What a lovely prompt we worked on today. I chose a William Blake poem to follow and in no time, unpretentious little words swooshed in and inundated the page. Don't you just love it when that happens? I hope this poem is worth your time.
I was blessed to raise two little boys who are now in their twenties. I don’t do much mother-ing anymore, but the fact that I’m still a mother qualifies me to write to tell you about the greatest joy I know. I hope that by the end of the post, you come to appreciate the analogy I make, or at best, you come to understand the beauty of something I so ardently recommend. Enjoy.
Anchor in lessons learned, Pivot and wait for clarity— like a lighthouse that knows its role and connection to greater things.
We were all children once, children who gallantly morphed into adults. And in our new adult outer-shells, we became teachers and walking examples with purpose. How is it that sometimes we don't mature correctly? How is it that sometimes we become so stubborn? In this article, I attempt to show you how not to let pointless stubbornness set us up for a joyless end.
A thought in favor of lonely, young people everywhere A break from the ‘norm’ that’s been her pampered life with absent parents jetting to exotic places the big house to…