silence

  • Against my Mind.

    What an odd Christmas I had, it was almost like an out of body experience, certainly out of control, where Christmas joy seemed to mock me outside, yet inside lay a storm of hurt, anger, sorrow, confusion, resentment, more confusion… Continue reading

  • Boldly slips away unscathed.

    What struck me last night is that the definitions of good and evil in my childhood home were competing for the upper hand, that my father’s heaven was my mother’s hell, and visa versa. It truly is that one man’s… Continue reading

  • Die in peace.

    A horrifying thought flittered across my mind, “ I need to write a letter to my father,” and it is like a thorn that won’t leave me alone, a bug, a thought I can’t swipe away, or flick back to… Continue reading

  • Pick Up the Broken Piece.

    What a slow learner I am, how incredibly naïve and blindly stupid…I am surprised that I am just now catching on. How has it taken me this long, almost six years to figure this out? The pain I have gone… Continue reading

  • Hand and Hand…

    There seems to be two energies of silence, awareness and unawareness, peace and hostility, love and fear, solitude and loneliness… There is silence to shun and hurt to push out and away that isn’t inclusive but divided. Silence that is… Continue reading

  • Let the Pain Out

    “Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” ~Theodore N. Vail When you face what you actually are compared to what you desire to be, you will find much peace, it is trying to… Continue reading

  • Being imperfect has set me free….

      “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”               Martin Luther King   ‘…the silence of our friends’… it’s the silence that keeps gnawing at me. … Continue reading

  • Ahead of time.

    It has been 10 days since my brother and I shared any communication, no emails, no texts, and certainly not a phone call, in silence our relationship is on pause since our last phone conversation.   The silence isn’t pregnant,… Continue reading

  • ….walked as you.

    My sister sent a request on facebook a few days ago, a ‘friend request’ and I accepted it with some trepidation.   I am not sure why she is stepping into my world after 4 years and I asked her… Continue reading