Craven Fear and Compliance

For how long will you allow your rights to be disregarded?

Araminta – I want to be like you.

“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” - Harriet Tubman One of my favorite …

Rosebush

The tiny apparatus beneath my tongue, The one that forms a phrase, and gives me strength to speak it, Disappeared whenever I saw him. Words - once friends, companions, Would flee. His face, so striking, It rendered me speechless. His beauty - erased every eloquent phrase From my memory. And it wasn't like he was …

The Strongest House

When you want to run away, But you don't, Because you know when you get Wherever it is you are going, You will still be there, That is when you are growing. When you look around And evaluate the actions of others Without allowing emotion, Need, Or desperation To cloud your vision, That is when …

Win their heart.

When I compare the woman I am today with the woman I was when I was young, I grieve. Young me was downright mean at times. I'm sorry for those days. Life has a way of teaching us what matters. Who matters. You sit on the couch, involved in a heated argument, and your mouth …

Fleeting Life

Story. I remember one of the lessons I learned about the human heart. I remember when I learned that love didn't obey rules and regulations. One form of love, anyway. We met and it was instantaneous. The draw, the attraction, the connection. Neither of us were models of perfection when it came to the human …

Defunding Planned Parenthood

Have you called your senator, yet? I did. Session begins at 2pm. I told the staff member this: "I am calling to share my point of view as a citizen. Planned Parenthood has spun out of control. I do not think they should be funded by tax dollars. If private organizations want to keep it …

Missing

You are a thread. Thick, Strong, Vibrant. And you've been woven into the lives of the people who surround you. If you suddenly go missing, You will destroy the pattern of the tapestry. For a pattern has already been designed And the Master Weaver sits at the loom Making it reality. But we have a …

Faithfully

It occurs to me, As I rest my body but allow my mind to labor, That the three words used quite carelessly in our society Have not been whispered into my ear. Gifts find their way into my hands, Time together blossoms quietly, patiently, As days go by. Laughter comes to every meeting, Inserting itself …