Finding Hope Finding hope in a season when there is more darkness than light, when family expectations intensify and the end of the year asks us to look back at all we have walked through… hope can feel a little out of reach.. It’s cold. It’s dark a lot . It can be...
I’m obsessed with cults. It’s a running joke in my family - anything that faintly smells a little bit culty is something I will seek out, devour, consume. I think my fascination with cults mirrors some of my own disorienting experiences of having lost myself and...
I am water soft enough to offer life tough enough to drown it away -Rupi Kaur, Milk & Hone My Grandma and I tried to watch Slingblade many years ago. By the second scene, I was dizzy, nauseaus and tearful. I told her I couldn’t watch it. She told me I had a tender...
When I left for college, I was in the midst of a lot of loss. My first semester at UT was a blur. In every picture I am wearing the same pair of light blue overalls. I think they must have brought me comfort. Forty two pictures, one pair of overalls. I needed a lot of...
Photo by Reese Erielle My sweet cousin died in June. It was a long road for her. It was a long road for all of us who adored her. She was so adored. Such sweet, soft, big blue eyes …. they almost looked sad like they somehow knew the end she would have one day. People...
SAVE MY FISH On a hot, sweaty, muggy day where the air weighed one thousand pounds, She-Who-Hates-The-Heat, was called outside. The beauty and order of the pristine Houston manicured lawns and the perfectly painted houses beckoned her and so, listening to her heart,...
Photo by Reese Erielle Is anyone else out there looking for a break in the chaos? Are you like me thinking next month will be different? Surely it will stop, right? It just has to. Except that it doesn’t. It’s the major things …. like illness and loss … and it’s the...
(image seen above) This is my version of the sunflower during our Art Way Painting Sunflowers class. I was so befuddled by my attempt to paint a sunflower that I found myself writing out “The Sunflower” by Mary Oliver and making petals out of her beautiful words. My...
April is here. Lent. Easter. Bunnies. Pastel m&m’s. Crosses. Churches advertising upcoming services. I used to be at all of them. I lived for Lent. Loved Maundy Thursday and praying all night in the Garden, Good Friday fasting, Holy Saturday, four little Easter...
The documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light" just won the Sundance Festival Favorite Award. It tracks the intimate moments of poet Andrea Gibson as they battle cancer with chemotherapy and intimately shares the life and love they have with their partner, poet,...
Years ago I heard about a heart transplant that blew me away. I have never gotten over it. The mysterious power that lies within the heart is so poignantly manifested in this story. An eight year old girl received a heart from a murdered ten year old. The girl began...
We are the world. Actually.In the “We are the World” documentary, you get a front row seat into the personas of some of the world’s biggest eighties’ musicians. That iconic song takes me right back to 1985 with its famous lyrics, those unique voices and that special...
