"I hold on to dates like others hold onto pictures and ticket stubs and brochures. I hold onto those too, but dates mean something entirely different for me. I remember the dates of important conversations, when I started counseling, birthdays, anniversaries. It's a common phrase in our household for me to start a conversation with, 'Oh! A year ago today we...' I put the date on Everything."
A look back on last week, interspersed with what this same week looked like last year. What did your this time look like last year compared to last year for you? What were you favorite things that happened this year?
These are the days // What I hope becomes a weekly reflection of life and thankfulness and a way to get pictures off my phone.
A handful of things I learned between December 2020 and February 2021
Day 1 of the January 2021 round of the 30 Day Haiku Project
"Thirty Days of Grateful" writing prompts by Callie Feyen. Day 22, something powerful.
A nighttime poem, written in a moment, about that moment, trying to make a way back to creativity and words.
Day 22 "lessons from quarantine" here, today, right now the only moment we have i'm embracing it This one came to me while putting away today's second load of laundry. How do you wrap up an entire 157 days worth of lessons in 17 syllables? And let's be honest, I haven't been learning this entire … Continue reading Story Behind the Poem // day 22
A weekend of summer haikus.
Day 13 "summer sips" fruit juice with dinner / black coffee in a paper / cup, iced chais with friends We don't have a special summer drink, so this is what I came up with for today. The juice we have is a strawberry banana flavor and I first tried it at a women's day … Continue reading Story Behind the Poem // day 13
