From the monthly archives:

July 2010

My Purse, It Has Layers

July 30, 2010

I got inspired by my friend Allison to do a “what’s in your purse” post. Why does this fascinate me SO MUCH? I know not. But it does.
First, the bag:

Next, the what’s-in-it:

{{this is why I carry a huge bag}}
So beginning at the top…
1. hypotrochoid art set that my son was playing with
2. small “birdy purse” [...]

44 comments Read the full article →

I’m your mama, it’s my job.
And your daddy’s.
To teach you about the things with weight, and grace and love.
To show you how to be peculiar.
To point to the Light so you will turn towards it.
On your own.
Look, little one.
There’s the path.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital [...]

11 comments Read the full article →

A Bride And Her Lover

July 27, 2010

It’s the craving.
Never getting tired of it, wanting more and more and more until I wonder if my thirst for this Love will ever be quenched. If I’ll always be this ravenous…
{{Read the rest of my love story over at (In)Courage today…}}

3 comments Read the full article →

Asleep In The Light

July 21, 2010

Do you see, do you see
All the people sinking down?
Don’t you care, don’t you care
Are you gonna let them drown?
How can you be so numb
Not to care if they come?
You close your eyes
And pretend the job’s done.
“Oh bless me Lord, bless me Lord”
You know it’s all I ever hear.
No one aches, no one hurts
No one [...]

12 comments Read the full article →

Skin Prison

July 20, 2010

every cell wails
travails for others
a good wail
pushing out from center,
Spirit creeps to every place
along the edges
of flesh.
this flesh
is not enough
it can’t hold it
so i wail.
***

When you have an experience. When you feel it well up, deep in belly, and it begins to prowl along your flesh. Pushing out to limb upon limb, growing in power. [...]

15 comments Read the full article →

We Celebrated

July 16, 2010

My dad has always called me “princess”.
He still does.
But this day was about the queen.
{{and she won’t like me calling her that}}

It was her birthday. Her day to feel the specialness that makes up her being.
She is my mama.

She requested my organic whole wheat chocolate chip cookies in lieu of cake and I happily obliged.
We [...]

35 comments Read the full article →

On Freedom

July 2, 2010

As we celebrate freedom, I think of my own “no more shackles” year. Back to the day when my freedom began. It might sound odd or morbid, but it was the day of my daughter’s funeral.
I read what I wrote about that day, again today, almost six months later, and realized it was day 1 [...]

23 comments Read the full article →

For Moms Of Boys

July 1, 2010

I’ve joined the incredible ladies at The M.O.B. Society – The Mothers of Boys Society. Have you found your way over there yet? Amazing women who have a heart for helping moms of boys.
“He looks at me pensively as he stands up. He knows most everyone in the place, so it’s not too scary. [...]