Lyrical Pilgrimage
Walking the streets of Hydra, I felt layers of stories unfold around me. The connection between Louis Tomlinson, Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen, three souls from different eras, converged in my journey.
Sky Burton
Jesika’s Ambition
Her daughter didn’t notice such trivial things of the working world. She believed her dreams to be bigger and better deserved, but the dreams were not her own.
Blood, Sweat and Fears
June 2020. Bored, deep into the pandemic and with all my clients in holding patterns, I decided to do a large fabric art project I had been thinking about for years. With the aid of some grippy bottom shoes, I fell off the ladder onto the pointy tip of my elbow.
Soulmates forever?
It’s easy to fall in love when you’re young, but with each year that passes an unfortunate thing happens. You grow up and it’s an unwelcome punch in the face that’s likely to leave permanent scars.
How to be an Introvert: Cry
In 4th grade the teacher called on me. I didn’t raise my hand. I never raised my hand. The last thing I ever wanted was to be called on. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the answers. I did. I think my entire life would have changed if I answered those questions.
A World on Fire
As always has been and I suppose will continue to be, someone is toasting with champagne and sleeping in soft sheets, while someone is trying to sleep and comfort their crying children in an auditorium full of people to escape bullets.
What gives our lives weight and meaning?
The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.