ARRIVING

I arrive today in the body of a woman who has lived, as many of you have lived, through joy and hardship and with determination and vitality and sometimes with hopelessness and confusion. The beliefs I hold and the choices I make tell a story, as yours does, of history and of promise, of struggle and of love, of not having shown up enough and sometimes having given more than was ever thought possible. We are complex creatures that way and yet, when we allow ourselves to rest in the stillness of a moment, are simple beings wanting very simple things.

For better, or worse, I am not going to promise you anything on this forum. Not a newsletter every Sunday, not wisdom or entertainment or anticipation of what I might write, what you might glean. But, I will say this. There will be days and seasons I step out of my private, sometimes very shy self to share because, well, it will feel right, because I want to be seen, or maybe, and this is a strong hope, because you may be impacted.

Through poetry, essay and prose I explore both the simple and the complex layers of human emotion and how it intersects with, well, nearly everything. Also recipes and photos of my dog, I’ll share those too.

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