The Heather #MondayBlogs The hardy flower blossoms in brightness a cheerful spot of color standing out among the soil and stone out of place beneath gray skies blooming without a care in harsh environments and rocky soils holding fast against wind and storm a smile and a promise to all who see it - Caroline … Continue reading The Heather #MondayBlogs
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Breathing Life #MondayBlogs
Breathing Life The messaging demands perfection with ever-moving goalposts the most fleet of foot are caught out and left behind images move away from truth creating the unreality that pins us down a plastic world declaring beauty as a standard enforced upon us all muting the choices we make in favor of silent spaces and … Continue reading Breathing Life #MondayBlogs
Mend #MondayBlogs
Mend The skies do not judge the soil for its fallow season and so I must give grace for my own seasons of rest the flower grows for its own sake and purposes neither asking permission nor forgiveness in the cycle but, oh, how hard it is to allow my body to follow its path … Continue reading Mend #MondayBlogs
Hurricane Hilary and Daily Life #MondayBlogs
Hurricane Hilary and Daily Life #MondayBlogs Well, it's definitely not poetry today! 🙂 My tiny slice of the California desert experienced a tropical storm last weekend, from Hurricane Hilary moving through Baja. In places accustomed to weather, or even just some regular rain, the storm itself would have been inconsequential. But, in a desert, we … Continue reading Hurricane Hilary and Daily Life #MondayBlogs
From All of the Before #MondayBlogs
From All of the Before #MondayBlogs Time does not heal everything but leaves it, years removed far beneath the surface of our minds distance does not change hearts from the sharp-edged stone that drove the wedge but only makes it more difficult for the pain and the violence to reach us still we fall back … Continue reading From All of the Before #MondayBlogs
A Sense of Direction #MondayBlogs
A Sense of Direction #MondayBlogs The North calls us to the cold a divine hand, pointing upward - while Eastward the sunrise puddles us with her heat and fire - we dive deep for a Southern call not a drowned world, but a peaceful one - while the West grants us rest to tuck ourselves … Continue reading A Sense of Direction #MondayBlogs
False Confidence #MondayBlogs
False Confidence #MondayBlogs How easy are the angry words to those you see as "weak": smaller in stature, younger in years seemingly all alone but oh, how sudden your change in tone your smiling face your softer side when faced with knowledge that the bite will be worse than any bark ever could be underestimated … Continue reading False Confidence #MondayBlogs
Savage #MondayBlogs
Savage Beauty lulls us into complacency forgetting the danger that lies in the civilization outside of our door we wear our polite mask trained through generations into pleasantness and a non-threatening manner but the savage within us returns as surely as our planet tilts our memories flow in our blood and we begin to shed … Continue reading Savage #MondayBlogs
A Gathering Dark #MondayBlogs
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Breakable/Unbreakable #MondayBlogs
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