My mind is racing. My heart doesn't know what to do with itself. And my eyes are looking forward.


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"I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth." -Madeleine L'Engle ( Read more... )

So much is up in the air right now. I'm just hoping when it all comes back down that I will be standing in the right place.

I've been busy with so many things. And I've been writing, but haven't been posting anything. We'll see how this goes ( Read more... )

Speak truth ( Read more... )

it's so easy to sit and stare at white walls ( Read more... )

There are so many new things in my life lately and they have made me, especially the people I've been around lately. I have several new friends that make me laugh. Yet, I have discovered that new friends cause me to remember old ones. Because when I tell my new friends about myself, I find that I am forever impacted and shaped by those friends who ( Read more... )

If slumber is supposed to provide

rest,

then why is it that

you, with the smug smile,

exhaust me in my respite?

Heavy down covers and blankets

cannot stifle my beating heart,

which still remembers the moments when it skipped

(because your heart saw mine,

snuck up on it, and tripped it).

Pillows with claims to Egyptian treasures

do ( Read more... )

Your Breath is no more
you have both found rest
                      at last
yet, no more of your laughter -
the sound that made my body smile.
(the sun came out to hear it
the flowers turned their faces to listen.)

these swollen eyes miss your smile
a mirror image of your Heart,
not captured in that phony 5x7
(that smile hid itself in ( Read more... )

I have had several significant realizations lately. They have been things I have been thinking about for a while, some longer than others, but it all hit me last week. It was a major kick in the face from life that I wasn't quite ready for, but it has been good for me ( Read more... )