Pain dulls the senses. On overload, we shut down; Going into survival mode, allowing only the most basic needs to have voice. When this happens in succession…when there is rapidfire negative stimuli, this state becomes the new norm –  “this too shall pass” becomes the…

I am a gypsy at heart. Even after children. Case in point – In 2008, I excepted my third counseling job, packed up the SUV, attached a makeshift hauler to it, our belongings hanging out over the edges, and traipsed with my adolescent children Beverly…

My mother wanted so much to be normal/to project normal. She had rules for behavior. Don’t borrow from others, nor lend. Don’t go where you’re not wanted. Be nice, say thank you, be sorry, don’t tell the neighbors our business… Not toxic shame, but some…

My, me, you, yours ours… hours gone. is it enough? US All of us who are Here Now can we make that be real everyday? Can I smile, wave even…at you…you at me and want to know each other’s story, hold that energy for the…

I had the experience once… more than once- of having someone in my life – a man to love me. someone in the tub, someone in the hallway waiting for me to come home. not now…now the house is empty. No lingering man scent in…

“This drink of luminosity is always within reach. This belongs to everyone.” Nepo you beautiful soul. It is the river of light of which he speaks. My course has Traveled along another river – dark and meandering, it’s waters murky yet beautiful. There is beauty…

This time it was easy let the flow come through in easy motion sometimes words fail me this time they danced off my fingers like they were slipping into a warm bath I love these times finding powers in the distillation of time and energy…

I breathe deeply through everything. Sometimes I do scream at it. Lately the runner is resurfacing. For a living I help with trauma. Lately I want a big break. I have a passion I don’t get to express enough. I care but I’m feeling depleted….

A Pantoum   Insurmountable?   Tower of Babel As high as the eye could see Insurmountable Never say, “Never.”   As high as the eye could see Just put one foot in front of the other Never say, “Never.” Don’t quit when others say, “Why…

A reminder for us all that the system is not broken. It is here to maintain and perpetuate what is was here to maintain and perpetuate.   What systems are you maintaining today?