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Ink and Insight
Building Resilience, One Word at a Time
Paper
Freedom.
Unfettered, unconfined emotion
seeping away in ink
from me
to you.
That
is freedom.
What's New
coming of age
before I turn forty I want to turn into a woman: become im -perfect arrest my efforts at enough deliver the sub- par with pride I've been told women are allowed to do that before I turn forty I want to embrace the woman in me she knows perfection is a choice I never knew I had an option.
Lovebird
When I was younger and depression kept me up all night, I'd open my windows and let the night's breeze inside— let the miasma of my inner dark be swept away by the fragrance of bright rose apples: a tantalizing breath of freedom on the other side of the cage. Through the wire I'd watch the silhouettes of resting hibiscus and pattering palm against a backdrop of a thousand stars in an unpolluted sky; Or a bright moon would reflect the daylight of another world over
Fleeting Epiphany
What would I do without the people around me? I could not survive alone in the wild. Not many would, and that is what makes us— the willingness of the strong to hold up the weak; the desire to tend to the sick, and for the Voiceless, to Speak. I am not lost. I am loved. I am loved. I am not a burden. I am not a burden. I am Human: a being who can take without giving. For as one hand holds me up here, There, I birth a child or wipe a tear. See, life is not a transac
Embrace the big feelings that come with not knowing: undiagnosed
There is romance in the way we hold hands as we walk back to the car from a multi-hour medical exam that later said: all is ...
Accommodations in my personal life: making the world more accessible.
Let's talk about accommodations. We'll go over what they are briefly and I'll tell you my story. Yours will be different, but hopefully...
Summer
Summer brings shocking pink crepe myrtle blooms, Lion cub roars and playful fun in all my house's rooms.
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