Dearest me,
There was a time when we were younger that we couldn’t quite look at ourselves in the mirror without tears filling our eyes and sadness. We were bigger than most girls and developed earlier on. This filled us with a sense of shame and humiliation as we were bullied and teased by those meant to love us and those in our peer group. O…read more

I had been imprisoned once, held captive by the powers that be. Small and alone within a cage, biting and clawing to find my way out. I felt lost, alone and filled to the brim with despair. Within the fortress was a tiny barred window fixed above. A tiny spider dangled from a web and the sun shone through a film, years of grime and dust painting…read more

I traveled shoeless
Most times
Bouncing in and out
With bare feet
Wanting to feel the earth
The ground
The rocky riverbeds
And crystalline rivers
Dancing around ankles.
In awe of the feeling
Of everything
Balancing
Grounding

Late nights stepping out
Into cool desert sand
Where sky
Touches the landscape
Everything as a galaxy
For…read more

I learned the importance of family and how fleeting life is. How those we love could be with us one moment laughing, smiling and sharing in day to day events to only be gone in the fraction of a moment. No goodbyes, no reasons why. How important I love you’s and I need you’s are when we have no clue what goes on within each others minds even whe…read more

Fearless wonder
Instilled within
Small bones.

Not ever quite finding
What felt like home.

Courageous child,
Strong and mild
You were raised by wolves
But didn’t let them make you wild.

Beautiful girl
With the world at hand
Skipping and playing
Within your own magical
Wonderland.

Mud pies
Fireflies

You were never alone…read more