today…

Today I lived a little dream and it looked like this… I ate an entire fish for lunch, jumped off a dock, ran screaming across burning hot sand, marveled at the mountains in the Congo, floated in the water until the tide pushed me in, ached a bit to see my dearest friends, stared at …

Beauty In Trees

I I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.  e. e. cummings 

I vow that…

I will do things that make my heart sing. Always. When I ignore that I need art, open spaces, Mexican food, stillness, community, laughter, and to serve… I slowly die. So, I write to myself… Dear woman, Life is too short not to move to that place, or make that change, or learn that scary …

littlest little

littlest little dear baby, you have my heart so stop. stop all this growing. please. don’t become a real boy. swirling whirling life. i can’t hang on the clock keeps… marching. and here we live chasing a dream we chase the dream for you. for two boys in africa our souls would burst if we …

Lost.

Last night we lost you. It stings with a heart wrenching, gut sinking foreverness. I am aching all over with the finality of it. You had no idea if we were ever coming back for you. But we were, my regal friend, we were. I feel as if a part of me has broken away …

the chocolate pirates

I’m up. In the middle of the night. This happens to me on and off, especially when I hear weird noises that may or may not be gunfire. All this wakefulness has gotten me thinking about our weirdest night in Burundi. We had been here a little over a month when I woke up in …