The call comes once again…
it’s time to let go.
With every sunset there is death
of all that was today.
The beauty I see now
will soon fade to dark-
the day shadowed by night.
Anything that happened
now only story
to be told from memory
that will only recall
that which serves the moment.
Then…
it’s gone.
Night is here.
The unknown creeps all around.
Serenaded by rhythm keepers
loud [...]
It’s wild. No, I mean WILD! I honestly don’t know how teachers do it from day to day. Willingly putting themselves in the fire of the adolescent village. Walking into the energy field that pulses with hormone, attitude, and emotion, contained loosely by an imposed boundary. That is, until it [...]
It was such a captivating site to see. Standing in Centennial Park in Atlanta Georgia, I stared up at this image on a CNN poster that covered the side of a building. It was larger than life (as they say), yet it needed to be for me in that moment. I [...]
Alone I stand in the unfamiliar.
Awkward.
Unsettled.
What am I doing here?
The deafening noise of screaming
splashes all around… and through me.
Who?
Them?
Me?
Resistance would have me escape this place,
Judgment leaving me raw.
Yet, drawn in deeper to something unseen,
beyond black and white,
behind rising walls of emotion,
I am frozen in the moment.
Who are they?
Who am I?
Why so much pain?
Where do they [...]
And so it is that I burst forth from my outer coating, that hardened layering that has kept me safe and my beauty hidden. Layer by layer I peel back that which inhibits and as I do even it’s beauty is revealed in the light of fresh perspective. Such magnificence in letting go. [...]
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