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Nina Telthorst's avatar

Love.

Feeding my mouth

Feeding my soul

I feed my grief

Feeling those without bread.

Disconnected souls

Disconnected creatures

Pulling up weeds

Not knowing they are truly medicine.

Answers are here.

Whispering, let go and stop resisting nature.

Let go and

normalize your age

Normalize the bugs

Normalize the weeds

Normalize the trees

Normalize the connection between all things.

Love.

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Lisette Murphy's avatar

Oof. Pulling up weeds.

Love this, Nina. Love you!!

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Shara Osgood's avatar

What sparks joy?

In the darkest hours

I search for that spark

My one voice

In the dark

Reaching out

Across time and space

To hear the harmonic surge

Of many voices

Rising up and out

Joined as one

To know that I am not alone

In my despair

Voices rising up

From the ashes and decay

Voices screaming out

To the numb and blind

For support, for help

Hands, so many hands

Reaching out from

The depths of the ocean, cave,

Pit of destruction

Desolation

De-SOUL-ation

When the form no longer fits

We must burn the meat suit

And rise from the ashes

Creating our own fire

And sparking the scream

That wakes us from the

Nightmare

And every morning

That I wake up

Is a chance to try again

What sparks joy?

That tiny crack that

Is a sign of being broken

Is also where the light gets in

That can fuel a

Thousand rainbows

The beauty after

The storm

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Lisette Murphy's avatar

Beautiful, Shara. I was reading about the recently deceased Joanna Macy this morning and considering her belief that despair and belonging both must coexist. I loved that framing for despair.

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