The trauma does not vanish. It lingers,rising, and falling like a tide that refuses to recede for good.  You do not summon it, yet it...

I’m a good person, just damaged from being good to the wrong people. But that’s not the whole truth. The heart bruises, yes, but it does...

The psalms I trusted to still my spirit now dissipate into empty echoes that gnaw at the edges of silence.  Strength abandons me, and I...

3, 000 years with no place. Orbiting in the outer realm and reaches. Looking for his presence, looking for his protection, looking for...

We are co-creators with God. We create the last moment, this moment, and the moments to come. Each breath carries the residue of...

Do I mew? Or do I meow? I’d like to think I mew and meow, but this answer does not suffice. The art of mewing is more advanced than to...

I get asked about it so often; it feels like a dream. No, I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Please stop asking. Some people say it...

Time, our dearly beloved landlord, charges rent in wrinkles and memory lapses, and doesn’t even offer a security deposit refund. We...

A variable-ratio positive reinforcement schedule rules the world and rules motivation in every respect. That’s why casinos glitter with...

I’m trying to better myself in all my areas: Body, Mind, Spirit, Finances, and Relationships. Not to become perfect, but to become whole....

We are all capable of great love and great cruelty sometimes in the same breath. The line between mercy and malice is thinner than we...

There is a psychopathic epidemic dressed in patriotism and profit, a radicalized choir of certainty singing hymns to the new orthodoxy....

Power is a retinue. It moves with a procession, a tide of faces that shift and dissolve, each one carrying the weight of the last. It...

I no longer craved the glow of constant happiness.  I grew tired of performing positivity, of shining when I was crumbling inside.  I...

You don't have to die to be dead. I have mental, emotional, and spiritual funerals on a daily basis. Some mornings, I bury hope before my...

We move through a world of opposites light and dark, joy and sorrow, beginnings and endings each defining the other, each giving shape to...

Dedicated to and inspired by Patti Smith. I spin through the chaos of thought, a cyclone of memories twisting into the unseen. I spiral...

Beneath all masks and marrow, let us draw near to those of us tangled in chains no eye can trace. In the quiet ache of isolated...

I don’t want to remember. I tried to let it all go long ago, but you just won’t let me forget. My memories of you soured since I was as...

A screech cuts through the hush of nobility, scratch marks left in the wake of mischief. Domination tastes like food devoured too...