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Icy Pearl’s Hair
July 11, 2018 1am I feel an epiphany drawing near. I can’t say it yet, because I don’t know it yet. But I feel it. Kind of like how you can feel the secrets of a place, from the old parts, from the untouched places, the places you can still find when you go out and away from the concrete. The secret stories to be told by the shallow salty waters or in the dark of the brackish backwaters; in the tales being whispered by the winds sneaking through the low blowing moss reaching toward the earth from the sprawl of the live oak branches. You don’t exactly know what…
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Her Lightness is Palpable
It was Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:04pm. I was on Day 13 of a 47 day writing project. I was on a mission. I was trying to learn how to love myself. I was told it was what I needed. I was told learning to love myself would change my life and fix all my problems. I’d come up with a plan for an emotional healing process I thought might facilitate the self love learnings I was hoping to achieve. I’d believed my planned project would take 47 days to complete – and then I’d see how I felt on Day 48. It’s now five and one half years…