my life is a mess
but this moment is perfect
my life is perfect
perspective
Beautiful & unfair
Life is not always fair — sometimes you get a splinter sliding down
Palm’s psalm
Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild.
Tree: “I cannot leave this place.”
Wind: “Then let’s dance.”
Glow, shine, reflect
Moonlight is a beautiful and comforting reminder that the sun is still out there somewhere.
Scoresheet
No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.
Ever finding
Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.
How to shine
it’s not that the people
with nice shiny attitudes
haven’t been banged up —
but they buff out their
dings and scratches with
gratitude and positivity
perspective and grace
resilience and courage
with purpose and faith
Grief mends
Grief is a burden
but also a friend—
It is not grief that
wounds your heart
but it is grief that
heals your heart.
A final breath in winter
Dying ain’t pretty. Death is beautiful.
Death lights heavy
Hummingbird mama
abandons her nonviable eggs —
but keeps checking back
a few more times, just to be sure.
An arm falls from a sickly saguaro
and breaks open on the ground
like a prickly green eggshell —
after decades of desert still-life
a few seconds of death-motion.
But the night breeze is so beautiful
those breezes are — so beautiful
it’s hard not to get swept away.
Memorial
Grieving makes us stronger
it gives us a spirit of grace
and the grace of spirit —
Our hearts feel weaker
but living past loss is
the ultimate courage —
We honor our loved ones
by living on despite,
and all the more because.
Tired of trying
Even the sun can’t shine on an entire world at once.
Mind own secrets
Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.