On the Fringes of Happiness: Stop Doing That, Start Doing This
Turns out, happiness is a bit counterintuitive to our competitive, ego-driven, individualistic Western mindsets. It may be enhanced or hindered by – but never defined by – our jobs, our relationships, addresses, or possessions.
A Spiderweb Crack
Never used china / Only for show / So how could you / Every really know / About that crack / Right in its core?
Love Is a Virus
As we all wake up every morning and put one foot in front of the other – at least from the bedroom to the kitchen and back again – in this Bizarro world of pandemics and isolation, remembering that love is just as contagious as Covid-19 gives me hope.
“Hello, Goodbye”-The Night Sky
The skyline remains ablaze in a transformative dance. Colors are mingling as they please — the bold and the dull alike. It’s a maddening swirl of gorgeous chaos. Intimate pink roses naively slip into tanzanite’s easy-going magnetic pull. They’re both flirting with all that boisterous, but subduing, orange. Blue feels his dominance slipping away…
Innocence Lost: A Story of Friendship, Heartbreak, and a Toothbrush
How naive and pretentious those falling, frozen flakes were to think their crystal veneers could shine bright and brilliant enough to mask this city’s decay.