“MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it’s important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee.” ~Hillary DePiano
The essence of ‘why’: Why it became therapeutic
Sometimes, healing can be through putting negative experiences into words for there’s positively profound effects.
And, the tune of the words is nothing compared to the chords in them that will break your heart…
The ‘light’ in the mist of your presence (I)
If I didn’t know what it felt like to be glued by words and later get detached from the ‘norm’… Read more The ‘light’ in the mist of your presence (I)

Papered Memories
That which was clear on a paper at one point, can literally take on a new meaning and tell a different story when folded as it does when left to crease.
The Abuser!
“There is nothing sweet about the body of a girl who spends months
crawling back into herself after she spent months teaching
herself how to crawl out”
Note to the affluent man
“Being a man is not about doing a whole lot of women wrong, being a man, is about doing one woman right.”
Nothing to hit…
We stay in them for we have convinced ourselves that being disrespected is better than staying alone. There’s power in rediscovering your own voice!