She lived in a closet. Protected from anyone who might take her to a work camp. They were quiet days alone with her journal. One day she wrote, “Thank goodness I’m free from the camps.” She was held underground. Protected from the ones who wanted her to work as a slave. They were terrifying days […]
Risk To Growth Ratio
When you take a risk you want it to be calculated. We did that. We rode our bikes on the bike path, down to Boom Island, and found a quiet, sandy spot to swim in the river. It’s not easy times with the pandemic and the pools are closed. Beaches are closed too, but all […]
No Abyss Named Love
Falling into something is much easier than climbing out of something. So it’s funny to me we use the phrase ‘fell out of love’. Like you can simply fall out of a hole you free fell into. You can’t. You must climb, crawl, and search for foot holds to help you out of the depression […]
My City Is Burning
**This is not a piece promoting violence** My city is burning. And I understand it. Faced with oppression and violence again and again, how can we expect to be heard through a peaceful protest? For so long, lack of civil rights, freedom, and the inability to live without fear has been the experience of People […]
Building Cairns
Smooth rocks with flat backs, stacked one on top of the other. I enjoy the simplicity of balancing the contrasting colors together to create a tower of evenness where the weight of one side matches the other so they can live in harmony, one on top of the other without toppling over. Sometimes when you […]
The Magic Of Mushrooms
A fresh crop of mushrooms grew right where her tears fell. With imperative love they responded to the salt of her watery eyes, the pain disrupting every cell of her being. She’d been in the same spot only 24 hours earlier and came back to cry again on the wooden stoop by the side of […]
No Right Turn
Miles and miles of road to travel. And no right turns. I’m circling the block and every time I see point A I feel as though I’ve been here before. When I ride forward and arrive at point B, it feels familiar too. I open up to the wind, with the sun glimmering off the […]
A Clean Cut
The doctor examined the tip of her finger cut straight through by her kitchen knife. “This is a clean cut”. He explained it was a good thing. And he’d be able to re-attach the tip with stitches and she would even have feeling in her finger again after some time. “It’ll be black and blue […]
The Courage Of Northern Plants
Plants in the North hold an incredible courage; ones of the South don’t. Every spring season they peek their small buds out as the sun shines his presence brighter and warmer each day. They grow in the warmth and love. Always aware, the end’s coming. For a short season the sun shares his love with […]
No More Color
Alcohol devastated First Nations because it takes away the color. The color of the earth, and connectedness to the plants, unfiltered, loving and enveloping. It didn’t hurt the white people because they were already numb. They already existed in black and white and were numb to the many intersecting spaces of black and white that […]