Teacher, Poet, Language Midwife
I was cooking dinner last December, thinking about what else to add in for more weekly income and work. I thought about a writing tutor position I had considered last year, […]
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California Chronicles: Part 2
I sat there two days into the workshop, with smoke snaking its way high and low around us on the california coastline, the landscape having become the silent bearer of […]
California Chronicles: Part 1
Mist in the morning. Hawk Hover. I stood in the shower that morning with unpolished toes on thin worn linoleum, thinking maybe this was the contraction before the expansion. Twisting […]
And then time?
And then time? It expanded open enough between 12:45pm as I sat at the Public Garden Swan Pond feeling an effervescent fullness in my heart after teaching and 1:50pm as […]
Taking Flight
And then there are the times where our travel plans are still not perfect and we continue on anyway. Adapt, reroute, readjust to move forward into our own manifest destiny. […]
Spaces
And so maybe the reality is that is life feels uncomfortable and confusing, we know we’re doing it right. I was elated, relieved, partially skin-satiated in anticipating my journey to […]
We Are One {Poetry}
I dreamt that we were boundaried enough that we didn’t spill ourselves so far over, suffocate each other’s sense of purpose, passion and peace. That we remained open enough for […]
We Artitsts, Dreamers, & Ingenues
And then hope leaped up into my heart and echoed down the ivory arching curvature of my ribs. Four small letters, like an ink map tethered softly along the bone. […]
All these many moments
And there were, all these many moments, like the midst of winter with leafless trees and stark grey concrete, when loneliness felt endless and I wondered if this life had […]
Gypsy Heart {poetry}
“I want us, to create Us. Carry with us
all of our traveling pieces.”
Lindsey O'Neill 