Entanglement

I write. I write poetry, nonfiction, flash fiction, short stories, children’s books, blogs, and spicy romance under a pen name.  It’s been said that you should write what you know. Well, I know a lot about heartbreak and struggle—less about happiness, peace and gratitude, but I’m learning, and I’m not vain enough anymore to believe that my life is worthy of reading about any more than any of yours—everyone has a story to tell—but, writing is my calling, my therapy, my island of sanity that ever saves me. Read it. Don’t read it. No matter.  Childhood trauma, loneliness, low self-esteem, alcohol dependency, toxic relationships, suicidal thoughts, severe depression, panic attacks, anxiety, worry, fear…a lifetime of pain healed during my dark night of the soul. For those who don’t know, the phrase, “dark night of the soul” is often used informally to describe an extremely difficult and painful period in one’s life.  Mine lasted 15 years.  Then one day, an epiphany, and t...

We have been conditioned, all of us, duped into thinking and believing Life has to be lived a certain way, according to a rigid system and set of rules—rules set by whom, exactly?  If you deviate from that way, that straight and narrow inflexible path, to live your life as authentically you, well then, you are a ne’er-do-well, you’re bad, a troublemaker, an outcast, a heathen, a hippie, an outright black sheep crazy person. People will want to pray for you to get back in line, but baby, you’ve found your wings and are soaring above all that hate, keep flying.  I’m here to tell you to not only think out of the box, but to climb out of the box, step out of line, dare to be different, dare to think for yourself, buck the system, heed the call of your inner voice, listen—LISTEN to your gut, it’s your Godspeak after all, wake up and open your mind.  Big things are happening, unprecedented things. It’s time to call back your power, to step into the fullness of your being, of wh...