One Conversation Can Change Your Life
I worked for the federal government right out of college. It was the kind of job that came with a badge and a gun. G man, they called me. That…
I Am
sun shaped silhouettes of silenceseduced sensitivitygently shaping my reality tears of broken dreamsshattered by a softness of unfathomable understandingimpregnated peace drips like honey from the fountainof my own courageto live…
Writing is Dying
A small part of me dies at the end of each sentence. Every period constructs my personal burning ghat, each coma suffocates an ember of my existence. This perpetual death…
Piano-less Playing Granny
When I was a child my Grandmother had 2 pianos in the living room. I never saw her sit down and play them in 20 years. I was always banging…
The Valley of Weathered Hearts
I left myself at the shores of frustration. In search of my true salvation. Driven by the love of elation. Shadowed by my fear and consternation. No time left for…
“We both create and destroy ourselves through imagination’s door. Imagination is powerful, beautiful, destructive, and sacred.”
~ Derek Dodds