In an attempt to clean up my act, I've created a new site on my own domain. Please visit me at http://www.shelwriteswords.com ! I would love for you to continue following me there 🙂 There is new writing posted already, and I'm in the process of transferring a lot of posts from this site over …
So I Lied…
Maybe not so much, "So Long, Farewell" but more... "Hold Please..." Truth is, I've been attempting to clean up my act. So, I'm attempting to create a new website/blog. I am having a terrible time because I am a perfectionist so I am trying to teach myself everything there is to know about creating a …
So Long, Farewell!
Please excuse the lack of poetic rhythm or romance in this post. It's just me, just making a decision and making anyone who reads this blog aware of that decision. I am going on hiatus. I attempted making some of my posts "private" that I realized I didn't really like anymore and well that's annoying …
A Proxigean Spring Tide
A week or so ago, I scribbled down the words, "There has been a significant shift" Weeks prior to the birth of that scribble, the undercurrents of this shift were already working to move me in a direction that I knew I should be headed in. But that's the thing about constantly thinking you know …
Deaf Ears
1/28/2018 I wrote the words below. Found them for the first time since writing them tonight 1/4/2019. It’s amazing how things can change so drastically, and yet be so unchanged. Keeping things to myself in order to preserve them is something I’ve carried with me over the past year. But presently, I see no benefit …
The Ernest Epiphany
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable, they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. - Ernest Hemingway Clearly, I did not write this quote. If you know a passion for understanding others, for reading, …
Why You Are The Only Person Who Should Like You When You Are 23
To be honest, Blink 182 was kind of right. Being 23 was not the year that I made a bunch of friends, and in fact I even lost a few of them. That being said, if they were the type of friends that should be in my life, I’m sure they would still be around. …
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Fear and Love
I was raised Catholic, for the younger years of my life. I sat in the pews, trying to memorize hymns I couldn’t relate to, prayers that seemed far-fetched. But, as with anything, I made it my faith, whether I had doubts or not. I let myself believe that by having faith, and by having fear, …
Being Okay
I knew it would get better. I knew it had to get better, and the funny part about it this time is that I recognized it when it did. Not slowly, not in the midst of it all, but all at once. All at once it was okay, and all at once it was great. …
Shampoo for the Soul
Prompt #765. Describe in extreme detail a shower or bath. Talk about your process and make some connection between the cleansing and your life. Here I am again, it's raining. Inside, from a shower head. Made of plastic. Another modern invention for this modern world full of modern shit. And none of it really matters. …
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