I believe the world is full of mysteries, and not just way out there in the great big beyond. This belief is central to how I see and move through the world(s), and as you might have guessed, it influences my story-telling. So here’s a collection of prayers, stories, poems—bits and pieces of my interactions with the palpable unseen.
MYSTERY & DIVINITY BY CATEGORY
Readings
card pulls. candle rambles. tarot and truth-telling. perspective and pondering.
Hauntings
exploratory stories: speculative and spiritual
Summons
poetry: powerful and purposeful
Refrains
something grounding, on repeat when needed
RECENT WRITINGS
May the Message Be Nourishing
Remembering I’m a person is the most powerful form of resistance I have—and candles prove to be excellent reminders of that.
It Looks Like This
What has uncertainty taught me? Hard to say for sure, but it’s far more than the faith that was handed to me.
Without Preamble
How’s your constitution?
Messy Refusals
Come up for air, cut yourself down, find yourself back with your feet on the ground.
Marrow to Mirror: Part Two
When the memories hurt, how do you hold yourself through it?
Marrow to Mirror: Part One
When you’re recounting something stronger than a dream, it helps to have a listening ear.
In All This
Thinking of conversations and complexities; of land and industrialism; of tensions between what is rigidly imposed and what seeks room to grow and bloom on its own terms, in its own time.
Stretching Toward Hope
A(nother) season of firsts, and spring beckons me forward with gentleness and grace.
Dandelions & Discarded Cigarettes
It’s the little things that speak to me, imbued as they are with mystery–like flowers in a parking lot.
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