Because My Heart Walks Outside of My Body in a Dangerous World
Because I had to initiate myself as an artist through the blood, then and now. Because I am a woman who bleeds. Because I am a mother whose blood became life. B...
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Stripped by Self Love
I am being stripped down to the essentials by acts of loving myself. A couple years ago I gave up my third child and full-time motherhood, my hometown community...
Ways of Healing: Sundays are Safe to be Sad Days
Sundays are my sad days, mad days, stretch and sing, write and read days. Sundays are solitude days, alone and lonely days. Sundays are expansive, grow my mind ...
Maybe Resurrection isn’t for Everyone
On Easter morning, as sermons of redemption and poems of rebirth flood her social media feed, she considers whether and how one can be reborn after committing a...
From She Who Is Never Not Broken
“Akhilandeshvari: ‘Ishvari’ in Sanskrit means ‘goddess’ or ‘female power,’ and the ‘Akhilanda’ means essentially ‘never not broken.’ In other words, The Always ...