This is a meditation on what happens when we reach our limits so you know that you’re not alone. Concluding thought: it is time we demand that our institutions and work cultures bend to human needs, so humans don’t break to meet unreasonable institutional or cultural demands

I am feeling brave this morning – brave enough to write – to spill my ink blood on the physical and digital pages that lie before me waiting to soak it up, to be filled with meaning. That very notion, that my words may have such power, causes me to…

Freedom is accepting and acting on one’s right to choose. –Ashley Sanders This definition takes as axiomatic an innate right to make choices about one’s life. An absence of this right implies a lack of freedom. It implies the responsibility involved when accepting that one has a right to make…

What is vulnerability butletting your heart step nakedinto another’s handand waiting with held breathand knotted stomachwonderingif your heart will be crushedbefore your very eyesorif your intuition was correctand the other will cradle and protectthe precious gift you’ve shared. Trust Trust is earned when the otherhas proven to be a careful…

Eyes blink sleepily openstaring at the hazy figuresas they slowly come into focus,fuzzy, gray blurs becomingdefined multi-hued crisp linessharpened by the sun’s dawning light.The drift between twilight and dawn was filled with memory-dreams,bright, fevered desiresthat grew like the monstrous shadows,beckoning me deeper into the dark.Adrift in the sea of night,…