Today’s post is from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. Content note: child abuse, domestic violence, marital rape Nostalgia is defined as a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The memories of childhood often evoke feelings of longing for a time whenContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: I wish I didn’t know”
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Outside the Box: Butterfly support group
Laura blogs over at Laura’s Light. This post was originally posted on her blog on January 22, 2016. I feel so lonely. And… I don’t know what to do. Does a butterfly feel lonely in the cocoon? Or does it have butterfly conversion support group meetings? I don’t know. But I wish I had them.ContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Butterfly support group”
Poem: Outside
The sun is shining over the flowers my grandfather planted. They’re still growing, long after he died in 1995. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s February’s poem. We can breathe again, out here in the open.Drink in lemonade sunlightbecause each one of us hasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Outside”
Outside the Box: Where we’ve been, where we are
Looking at it now, it all seems so simple…The rest of the world was black and whiteBut we were in screaming color… – Out of the Woods, Taylor Swift We can breathe again, out here in the open. Drink in the lemonade sunlight because each one of us has faced so, so much dark. RightContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Where we’ve been, where we are”
Minimalism. Simplicity. Calm.
I come from a family of clutterbugs. Or maybe you could call us memory hoarders. We save everything. We love antiques and scrapbooks. My dad’s parents got married at the start of the Great Depression. My two elderly aunts, both born in the 1930s, remember World War II rations and home gardening. Frugality was necessaryContinueContinue reading “Minimalism. Simplicity. Calm.”
Eleanor Skelton 