Some years feel longer than others...this last two, 2020 and 2021 felt like a decade. And this month, was a long, long month. I had my booster shot - got sick, powered through it in time to have a holiday visit with extended family (starting on one of the worst rain storm days) and then …
Category: The search within
I watch you as the ghosts you carry orbit around you, their gravity pulling you in many directions, the ebbs and flows of your tides carry your emotions, washing ashore, sometimes quietly and sometimes with great crashes. I watch you as each ghost possesses you in turn, a smile, a grin, a tear - voices …
Feel it
Let your feelings flow, flow through you, become you for that moment and then flow out again. Give your feelings to the earth, she will absorb the energy as she absorbs the sunlight and the rain. Do not hold your feelings good or bad, they are meant to flow, eroding parts of you, creating new …
When you need a jump start
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Every once in awhile everyone experiences a creative block. Whether it lasts a few minutes or a few days or even longer, it happens to anyone who is creating - painter, sculptor, musician, poet and writer. What I do when that happens, is I put aside my project and play …
Autumn
Today is the autumnal equinox, the balance point between dark and light that we hit at the midpoint between seasons. Leaves have started to turn colors all over our hemisphere, some bright enough to bring out "peepers" who appreciate the pageantry of the season. And some, like in my part of the hemisphere, simply falling …
Listening
Hearing you, I try to listen, The words are forming in my mouth, but I hold them back in order to swallow yours. They taste of emotions that sometimes make no sense to me in the context you present, and yet I try to hear each word before forming a response or an opinion. It …
Cogito, Ergo Sum
"Are all those...me?" I asked. Watching myself ripple out across time, and staring at the vast numbers of me in the sky. Yes. Came the answer. And then as an afterthought, or perhaps an addendum. And everyone else, as well. "But" my voice quaked and shook, "that means we are all one?" "What about who …
Noise
I hear voices in the fan, as it whirls and shifts, heartbeats and sighs circle round the air conditioner as it takes in the heat and breathes out cool. The house shifts and settles, creaks and crackles, echoes of my own bones as I move about like Jonah in my own private whale, like some …
Learning to live with ‘different’
Too many thoughts are swirling and bouncing around, vying for my attention, pronouns and identities, and orientations seem natural to me, call someone what they ask to be called. I was always 'different', had people in positions of authority over me who told me my name should be Natalie not Natalia, and punished me for …
Sometimes Failure is the BEST Option
Not everyone comes out of the chute with their life's goal firmly in mind, and a wonderful plan to get to it, in place. What a surprise! Sometimes, the only way to know what you want to do with your life is to experiment. And experimentation can often lead to failure. And that's okay! For …
"Wind in her mane" 