Only with a better ending for the song…..”Yesterday, all my troubles seemed they’re here to stay, now it looks as if they’re far away.” I walked into school yesterday morning quiet and still so as not to wiggle the jello in my stomach. My emotions were tender and precarious, after the day before, like the …
I washed up on shore today. Limp and ragged. Just got shot in the heart without my armor on and it took me by surprise. I feel like a carrot scraped raw and my leafy green top hangs by a thread. It’s a fresh wound to a recent stab site and I wasn’t expecting to …
What if you knew that what you were about to say was the last thing you’d say to someone; to anyone at all? What if all the distractions in this life were keeping you from noticing the thing, the person, the small something that was the reason in the first place? What if the attention …
Recently, I sat with friends in a coffee shop; the kind that take you deep or take you silly in one conversation. We’d made a pact to get there on a Saturday at 8:00 a.m. because we were just that hungry for connection. Ah, it’s a boon to my thirsty soul to find these real …
I spent all night last night sleeping restlessly, waking up and crying, falling back to sleep, rinse; wash; repeat. It’s strange, this rise of emotion. I’ve known, like you know your name, that my boy would go back to Africa. It’s just that I’d gotten comfortable telling him “You’re going to go back one day. …