The heart is a strong organ. It beats. It feels. It’s alive. And when a little part of it flakes, it’s always the same little piece. As it begins to grow new healing cells, it gets scrapped again. Splinters stuck, protruding from the innocent place. The place…
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It’s been a bad week. It’s been a very bad week. I’m easily irritated for no reason at all. I’m fighting with something; an untamed beast inside. Think less, pray harder. Useless efforts go to waste. I’ve been so busy, there…
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Songs on the radio play with me, rhythmically conducting something. Tuning it out is ineffective. What ever dances it’s way in, happens on its own, without correlating its outcome. Sometimes it’s the words, sometimes it’s the beat, sometimes it’s the instrumental background, sometimes it’s the trigger of some memory. The process is foreign,…
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…And it had to rain. For a few minutes it had to show up. It had to say, “Hello.” There wouldn’t be any other way. I find it fascinating. No forecast of rain. Dry spell for weeks. Then, a get together with…
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For this exercise you will need some time, paper, and pen… and open mind… Do not read ahead or it will not be effective. -Relax. Think of a person whom you care about and love. It can be your spouse, child,…
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Twenty minutes, thirty minutes, an hour is just not enough. A fight against time. Pressure. It’s a teaser, an introduction to a novel with never ending chapters. It stirs me up. The drive home is long enough to remember a number…
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Complete darkness encloses me. Nothing, but a black and cold world. I stand in the middle of a huge deep canyon. I look up, the sky is entirely starless. Dark and heavy clouds hover above the earth. I need to get…
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Negative thoughts have been with me all day. They keep popping in, bothering me, nagging and nagging, until of course, I write it all out. They repeated the same scenario of great disappointment; the type of disappointment that one feels when they realize they’ve been wrong,…
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I can’t sleep. I wake up at 1, 2, 3 am. Most nights still, whatever or whoever it is, it navigates a way to find me. Strangely, I anticipate it. Strangely, I know it will come. Strangely, I don’t ignore it.…
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I’m going to attempt to explain this as best as I can; though I’m sure it will not be understood the way it makes me feel inside. I’m trying to grasp everything the best way possible, but it’s out of my conscious mind to do…
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