self love

I Look Forward to Finally Meeting You, Love

I Look Forward to Finally Meeting You, Love

Sunday mornings are for coffee and daydreams.
The kind that have me wondering about slow love.
Knowing glances over our steaming mugs,
Me baking scones for you, and you feeding me a bite of your bacon…

I wonder what you will look like,
Although that’s never mattered much to me.
I care so much more about what your soul feels like,
And how connected we are…beyond the day-to-day activities.

The Magic of Musicals, Triggers, & Dreams That Don’t Look Like We Thought They Would

The Magic of Musicals, Triggers, & Dreams That Don’t Look Like We Thought They Would

Triggers are a funny thing.

They can affect you in a good way that leads to growth. And they can also affect you in a way that rips your heart out. And hopefully also leads to growth.

Tonight, my trigger was a musical.

An Almost-Feral Chick’s Plan for Reintegrating into Society, Post-Pandemic

An Almost-Feral Chick’s Plan for Reintegrating into Society, Post-Pandemic

A friend of mine admitted to me recently that he had judged me when I told him I was having anxiety about reintegrating back into society after the pandemic.

For saying that I felt almost feral and perhaps even a little agoraphobic — and not at all sure how I was going to prepare myself for leaving my house on a regular basis again.

A Self-Care Prescription for When We Wake Up With an Emotional Hangover

A Self-Care Prescription for When We Wake Up With an Emotional Hangover

Anyone else wake up with an emotional hangover this morning?

And maybe a weird pain in your left eye that you can’t quite figure out?

I felt like I was in a fog for the second half of the day yesterday — my morning’s work woes quickly forgotten in their irrelevance and sudden unimportance in light of what was going on in our country.