One day left of winter

Goodbye:
- rad black stockings
- raindrops when I’m sleeping
- baby-doll coat
- Palmer’s Cocoa Butter
- puddles on the pavement
- long, long scarves
- noisy (p)leather jacket that screeches when I move
- cold hands when I’m typing
- orange light of the heater turned up to three
- don’t-know-where-I-found-you-duck-handle umbrella
- constant threat of flu
- electric blanket and the weird dreams it brings
- wipers on [...]

Sentences uttered while I was in the room

Someone once told me they saw longing in my eyes.
They told me they saw a little pain in my eyes, too. They thought it was related to my father. I wondered if they were just guessing.
My father once told me I had an old soul. He said he had a young one. Or maybe he [...]

The hallway

It makes sense to pray for God to open doors He wants you to walk through, and close others He wants you to stay away from.
But that really doesn’t save you from much when you’re already standing in the doorway. You still get hurt when the door slams shut.
I think it’s safer waiting in the hall.

Eating humble pie

In learning and practising humility, you can become annoyed that other people aren’t trying as hard as you to humble themselves and put others (read: you) first.
And then you realise - in your caring - you’re not really humble at all.

Ticket to ride

I think of adventure, and my mind goes to love. I don’t know if that’s illustrative of my being a woman, but to me, any adventure that’s going to open my eyes and my mind is one worth sharing with my heart.
You and I spoke about travelling tonight, and immediately I felt my heart wake [...]

A picture I can’t see clearly

Sometimes when I think of my future, I see a picture.
It’s a picture of a house, but not really a whole house, more the sense of a house. Like when I’m walking down a street at night, I can’t help but look inside the houses as I’m passing. Outside it’s dark, cool, moonlit; but inside [...]

Here is a little story I didn’t intend to write

Right now, I am fascinated by the seemingly random paths life takes us down, by the strangers God puts in our lives, or perhaps, those we put there ourselves. For, when we first meet, we are all strangers. We are all new, foreign to one another. We do not know who someone is to become [...]