I WILL NOT DIE AN UNLIVED LIFE

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk …

TRYING TO SPELL LOVE

There are some things the mouth finds increasingly difficult to spell ……. There are battlefields within us where nothing is able to grow, where our past and its ghosts search tirelessly for a warm place to die, where the white flags hang over the funeral of God and our limbs become the mirrored skyscrapers that …

THERE IS A BROKENNESS

There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatterdeness out of which comes the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depth emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out …