unearthing the creativity that hides in my hair
Sometimes it can feel like you are floating through life; the expectations that others have for you, weighing heavy on your thoughts. You don’t know where you are going, and maybe only have a faint idea of where you would like to go but that isn’t good enough. It’s not good enough for the hungry […]
Read More Rambling Nonsense on a Friday NightAs many people don’t know, I have been (finally!) working on a new blog post to announce my return to the digital world and talking about where I’ve been hiding these past months. I was having a really rough time getting the words out and had only written about two hundred within the past four days. […]
Read More Coping With the Loss of Your Written ContentIt seems like there has been a lot of death around me lately. Usually it’s not something I feel comfortable talking about but it’s been making me feel so much. I’ve decided that maybe the best way to deal with these feelings is to write. You hear about people dying in genocides, terrorist attacks, wars […]
Read More When You Weren’t LookingHave you ever simply closed your eyes and just listened to the breeze? Listened to the whistling of the leaves and that quiet in between? There really isn’t anything else like it. It carries you away on a lighthearted symphony that is so soft and so free. Take a moment and come along with me. When […]
Read More Close Your EyesMy senses are alive with the fragrant aroma and magnificent view. I am consumed. I have given myself over to something larger. Something wild and untouchable. Something so alive, so powerful. It is all dancing. It is singing. No, she does not dance for you. Nor does she sing for me. This is a piece […]
Read More Into the WildI am procrastination at its finest Its juiciest and its ripest I have many dreams and ambitions Never to unfold I am the tail end of a story Never to be told I am that dream in the night That easily escapes no matter how hard you fight So long to such feelings Give in […]
Read More I AmWhere does our negativity come from? Many, like myself, choose to believe that it is caused by other people. Which, in a certain sense, is slightly true. The other side of this, which many of us choose to ignore, is that it is our fault that we let it in in the first place. For […]
Read More The Birth of NegativityThere are times When I can’t write a damn thing Times when my brain gets as dry as dirt With less to offer There are times When all the special words Cease to leap from my mouth And my fingers forget How to run freely across my keyboard There are times Where it feels as […]
Read More A PoemSometimes it’s really hard to not think about the question “why”. It lingers in the dusty cupboard in the back room of all of our minds. Why? Why am I here? Why are you here? Why? And there are no answers, only the whimsical theories of mysterious men. Spirituality, I find, is often hard to […]
Read More Why?Sometimes we give up Assuming our goal is too high or too deep We don’t take a second to step back and calculate We just stop Why do we do this? What makes us give up on our dreams? I used to like to think that I was banking them away for later; a good […]
Read More The Art of Giving Up
Violent Tresses 