The New Year comes in cold: the air brittle and white. Empty. And perhaps it sounds strange, but for now, I like the emptiness, and I’m in no hurry to fill it. My friends rush back and forth announcing resolutions — buying sneakers and juicers and gym memberships. And hear me: those things are beautiful, too. This […]
Category: What Happens Next
The truth behind the quiet …
If you’ve been reading my words for awhile, you may have noticed a quiet here, building. It’s not that I haven’t been posting; it’s just that I haven’t been saying very much. This is a tell: it’s something I always do before I’m about to speak. … A little intake of breath, I suppose. […]
Breaking Silence
I’ve been quiet for more than a week here — maybe you noticed. I needed that time to step away … to sink into silence. Sometimes I need silence the way so many good green things need winter — maybe you know what I mean. Not long ago, I mentioned that I’ve been mulling a new project […]
February Love, A Few Warm Thoughts, & a Prediction or Two…
It’s been almost two weeks since I ended my last series, The Secret Messages Project, and if you’re a regular reader (I know that I do, in fact, have a small handful of those now), you might be wondering what happens next. Me, too. So I thought I’d take today to tell you a little […]
A Brief Hiatus in a Warmer Place
This morning I woke up to green air, green light, summer sounds. I’ll be wearing sandals for the next week, leaving glistening footprints all over Key West, a place my soul’s been needing lately. I promise to come back soon with fresh photos and words. In the meantime, I hope you go outside, look and […]
One Last Look Back… & Then Forward
I’ve let this place lie fallow for a week now. I’ve been resting. Contemplating what’s come, and what comes next. Almost two months ago, I built this blog out of sheer desperation. Because at that time, wherever I looked I saw a lot of loneliness. I felt marooned in a city where I didn’t belong. […]