I beast.
Because, running a blog while working, parenting, and wifing full-time, while holding it all together?! Hello. It me. 👋🏾
Not bragging, just proud of myself and how far I’ve come, compared to who I once was.
Day: October 17, 2019
Just Before Sunrise
I decided not to meditate this morning.
Instead, I sat outside breathing the crisp, cool, autumn air
and watched the dawn paint the sky with its cotton candy colors
while the leftover silvery beams of the moon’s light
began to dampen and fade to wisps
becoming the shimmering dew on the grass, the sparkling diamond droplets on the spiders’ silky webs,
And the sleepy mistiness of the early day that
always comes just before sunrise.
Rough Draft
I love all the
squiggles, scratches,
scrawls, scribbles
carets and paragraph marks
unexpected brackets, write-overs, and random
annotations
that swirl boldly through
most of my handwritten work.
They all highlight mistakes,
yet also remind
how quickly the mind
moves
to make sense of
all its random, unordered chaos
and then
create art
from it.
Inspiration tames madness;
I keep all my rough drafts.
15 October 2019
Friend
I’ve learned
to be the kind of friend
to myself
that I want to have.
How I treat myself
is how I’ll treat others
and how they’ll treat me
in kind.
My self-compassion
could make me a selfless companion.
I grow more
when I know more
about myself.
I’m always learning…
15 October 2019
Bliss
Cool fall evenings
where it rains and I
sit on my front porch
with a steaming hot cup
of coffee,
watching the natural world
be [itself].
15 October 2019
Little Experiments
Life is made up of
little experiments we
concoct –
pushing boundaries
and guessing at the results;
Until we’ve learned enough
along the way
to create firm
methodologies.
15 October 2019
Hurt Spot
There’s a hurt spot in my heart
that I keep
because I have hope
that those who
made it will
return one day
to help it heal.
15 October 2019
Aesthetic
Late night cups of coffee
and lifted conversation
are my
aesthetic.
15 October 2019
Bright Future
Future is curiously bright
and almost painful
like the first time
I stared at the sun.
I knew I shouldn’t have,
but it’s all vibrance and warmth…
only short gazes
before it starts to burn.
15 October 2019
Stay Lit
Sometimes,
the spliff don’t
stay lit
when you dropping knowledge.
So basically,
it goes out when
output becomes greater than intake…
The cherry loses its fire,
and the tree
stops pulling.
Sometimes I think our brains are essentially just unusually-shaped blunts.
