SWAN (Stop Wasting Away Now) is a weekly dose of inspiration from me to you. Each week I will make a short video post about something on my mind. The posts will be unscripted & shot straight from my soul. Stop wasting away now, life’s…
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Poetry Friday: The Thing Is | Ellen Bass
Read moreThe Thing Is | Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with…
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the girl behind the curtain (about me)
Read more[I recently updated my About page. It is an introduction for new friends and it also reflects my direction for moving forward with my writings here. I thought I would share it as a post, too, since most of you don’t check out the About…
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Life is Magic: My Home
Read moreYou were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you. —Isadora Duncan I live on the side of a mountain. Just beyond our backyard is a state forest—Norvin Green State Forest. (If you’d like to see a map, you can look here. We live on…
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Destroy what destroys you.
Read moreEverything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. —Bob Dylan Recently a gracious friend featured my words in his essay, How we see. In it, I said that my journey through crippling depression was like crossing a river. There are two…
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A Beautiful Fight
Read moreSometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. —Charles Bukowski Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve been struggling. Today a sense of calm swept…
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Trust Your Struggle
Read more“My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked, there is something burning in here.” —Andrea Gibson Sometimes we want to say something, but words fail us. Maybe we want to describe the goosebumps that crawl all over…