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Break Up

All the time it took to get you out of my system, not even like my actual system, like my  System, system. Like the rituals of waking and moving and shaking about. The pauses in between sessions and dinners and bathroom breaks. You permeated. Not in a lovely, sentimental way,  You permeated like a bug,…

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Retirement

Hey Honey boo, Oh my dear sweets, I am so, so thankful for you. Look what you accomplished. Just look. Do you see it? I remember that night on that trampoline under the stars and we made a wish.  Do you recall? The wish, which would become a call, was to break it all.  Your…

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Precious

My favorite part of a human mammal is the back of their neck. How deliciously soft and delicate it can be and also pinches and  pulses with muscles. When my babies were small I cupped that place, there, it felt like down feathers and soft silk, I couldn’t keep my fingertips away from it. When…

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To meditate

Meditation means to be in the moment as it is. Acceptance. On this snowy day, the digits barely registering past 9, The older two making the bus in some sort of happy fashion, The youngest on the floor, playing and entertaining and  Making a whole world all of his own. She asked, she guided, she…