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Month: August 2018

Crape Myrtle
Vespers in gloaming light

Crape Myrtle

August 12, 2018January 21, 2019 The Welcome Light2 Comments

I tried to take a picture, But I couldn’t catch the light. And no matter how I aimed the lens, The photo wouldn’t come out right. The picture didn’t see the detail, That made me pause and think, And smile at how the petals looked like chiffon- Delicate and pink. The honey light slicing through… Continue reading Crape Myrtle

lake district
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lake district

August 9, 2018January 21, 2019 The Welcome LightLeave a comment

"You will find someone else to love you." That is what I say to myself when I feel my heart grating against the want of you. Despite the knowledge of what should be, and with the knowledge of what is, of what it was. I fall deeply into the lake of our past often. I… Continue reading lake district

Mind Flutterings
A Hope Chest of Light Keeping

Mind Flutterings

August 6, 2018January 21, 2019 The Welcome LightLeave a comment

Being an actor is complicated. Mostly because I complicate it with a desire to have success immediately and exactly in the way I believe it should come. Control is an issue, and trying to control a creatively expressive career is not wise. Trying to control your creative life fully is like trying to catch and… Continue reading Mind Flutterings

Persephone rising
Vespers in gloaming light

Persephone rising

August 5, 2018January 21, 2019 The Welcome LightLeave a comment

She said, you are in the long night now, girl. The sun is far, far away but dawn will break eventually. Hold tight to yourself and outlast the dark. I told her I was hardly holding on to anything, much less myself. She said to keep holding on anyway, to whatever I could find. She… Continue reading Persephone rising

a love poem
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a love poem

August 2, 2018January 21, 2019 The Welcome LightLeave a comment

On loving you, I know no other way yet This is boring, I think, loving a person who isn't here. It would be more fun to be together, to be planning. Instead it is just me. So I love me instead of loving you. To give myself something to do in the meantime. Loving me… Continue reading a love poem

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My search for belonging has been a constant companion; writing the cartography to find my way home. As my Mother always said while I was growing up “No matter where you go, there you are.” This is a place where I can continue to create what comes next as I hold sacred what has been and stay grateful to the joy that is present.

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