Once upon a time, a little girl sat in a field releasing the fuzz from seeded dandelions and watching the wind gather the wisps into the sky as it tousled her hair. Sometimes, she danced with the wind, her blue skirt swishing to synchronize with its rhythm. One day the whimsy of her dance ledContinueContinue reading “The Herdsman, the Maiden and the Coyotes: A Fable”
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Self-injury: A Worldview
“Told I talked too muchmade too much noiseI took up a silent hobby—Bleeding.”― S. Marie Self harm. When the darkness inside at last leaks out and mars your body. The reasons most people give for hurting themselves are complicated and diverse. Verbalizing the pain, punishing and satiating guilt, desiring control, a grasping to keep outContinueContinue reading “Self-injury: A Worldview”
Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition
I was one of those pre-teens longingly looking through the True Love Waits catalog back in the early 2000s. Wondering. Waiting. Somehow, I wanted to believe that wearing one of these rings and promising to keep my thoughts pure and my body untouched would magically cause the man God had prepared for me to appear,ContinueContinue reading “Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition”
Eleanor Skelton 