I’ve been thinking about wildflowers a lot lately. As I’ve been going on long walks around Bloomington, I’ve found more and more places where wildflowers are blooming. They change a little throughout the seasons, but they are still there. And, as I walk, I find them in the ugliest of places – forgotten corners of…
Category: writing
The Letter Exchange
There was a long, persistent lonely feelingIt wasn’t something she truly understoodBut it wasn’t exactly foreign, eitherIt was the culmination of a million momentsWhere it didn’t matter if she was around peopleOr if she knew she had something to anticipateShe still felt truly lonely. There was a soft, gentle, lovely feelingGrowing with each passing dayA…
Bottled Up
She wasn’t the kind of person who broke easilyShe wasn’t the kind of person who showed her heartShe’d been too open and had learned to wall off the world She kept herself safe by keeping herself just outsideOutside the people who could hurt herand outside the risks that might grow her – or destroy her…
Broken & Whole
a study in contradictions Every piece shattered when she fellThe floor covered in bits of dreamsHopes and wonders and should have beensNo longer able to be seen for what they were Dust choked the light that tried to stream inCovered the surfaces that once held happy memoriesHiding the cracks in surfaces polished to a fake…
Ruminations on Isolation (Part 2 of a series)
I’ve never been particularly scared of the dark. Quiet mornings and nights haven’t bothered me. Instead, I often find myself overwhelmed by the noises of life. The constant barage of sounds from every direction create chaos and refuse to let me soul settle. Then as life got harder and more complicated, I found myself using…
Begin Again
Staying in the same place would have been easier.Less risk. Less fear. Less unknown. Less expectations.Staying in the same place would have been debilitating.More of the same. More complacency. More disquiet in the soul.Staying in the same place would have been expected.Not rocking the boat. Not changing the path. Not upending the journey.Staying in the…
Supposed to Be
April 16: Supposed to Be She was everything she was supposed to beQuiet and ordinary, go with the flow, don’t rock the boatShe was everything she was supposed to beIt was her chance and so hid herself behind a cheerful guiseShe was everything she was supposed to beThe truth of who she was pushed down…
