I Am Listening
There’s a sound in the distance that grows louder every day. Only I can hear it — my own dog whistle, perhaps. When I’m quiet it can be deafening and a sadness wafts over me.
It’s the sound of my inner weirdo screaming to be heard. It’s the sound of the old woman I’ll be [...]
meandering
I feel I am forever meandering in and out of the folds of my life. I nestle into one fold then can’t seem to rise up and find the grit I need to dive into another. This blanket, this world, this imagined reality is comforting and yet, in a flash, it shows itself to be [...]
believe shift
“It is going to be unbelievably hard some days – like the rawness of birth, all that blood and those fluids and shouting horrible terrible things – but then there will be that wonderful child right in the middle. And that wonderful child is you, with your exact mind and butt and thighs and goofy [...]
Fluxed?
“We crave an unbroken line between who we are and what we do.”
~ Diana Baur, A Certain Simplicity
I am in a constant state of flux about who I really am. I wonder. Am I a series of descriptives and labels that have long been hung on me? Am I really that bossy, bold, [...]
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