Saved?

So, it’s no secret that I have a rather, um, fraught relationship with religion and extremely religious people. I was raised non-denominational Christian, did Sunday school like most of my peers, but I was never christened or baptized. I also didn’t have pierced ears till I was 22, but that’s another post. Point is, somewhere [...]

One shot to the heart without breaking the skin

No-one has the power to hurt you like your friends.
Kept it inside, didn’t tell no-one else;
Didn’t even wanna admit it to yourself.
But now your chest burns,
And your back aches
From fifteen years of holding the pain
And now you’ll only have yourself to blame
If you continue to live this way.
(From “Get It Together” - India Arie)



Long [...]

One Art

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you [...]