The time I let my heart sliplike a butterfly, escaping the cocoon.Stretching away from you.Silent.Expected by everyone elseexcept for me – that fresh creature – stretching my paper-thin wings.Dancing with danger.The time I used forceto overpower my baby (physically and his will).Not to abusebut to control to contain.And I watched the reactionin his eyesturn to … Continue reading Do Overs
Month: January 2024
Mini-Slice: Synchronicity
Call me crazy, but I believe in synchronicity. Those unexplained moments of alignment or coincidence. A sign from the universe or God, from the ancestors or the angels, that They are listening and you’re on the right path. Where you belong. I had just returned from a truly incredible weekend away. A mini-escape from the … Continue reading Mini-Slice: Synchronicity
Believing
I wonder,do animals believe?Does the bird or the field-mouseor the grasshopperbelieve? In magic or fairies? In Gods or ghosts?Do they sense the mysteryof a force bigger than usthan nowrippling through the ages?Or is the capacity for belief that pull and longing that certainty and curiosityisolated to only humans?Are we the only specieswho feel that connection:a compulsionto … Continue reading Believing