\”Viste mi aquário?\” (\”Did you see my aquarium?\”) She grinned as she leaned over the side of the platform and stared at the tiny fish swimming in the sludge that filtered its way under and around their house. Enamored. She is a glass-half-full kinda gal. My sandal snapped and the sludge oozed between my toesContinue reading “Seeing the Aquarium in the Sludge”
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These Demons are Pretty
“Go watch Elliott,” Richard said to me very seriously. I stepped into the kitchen in our tiny wooden jungle home and looked out onto the back patio where Elliott liked to play in the big water basin. He was three and a half and full of imagination and wonder at all the things the worldContinue reading “These Demons are Pretty”
God, I Need You
God, I need you today. I need you because I can\’t be the mom or wife I need to be. I need you because I worry about what people are thinking and saying. I need you because I seem to always forget that I should ask you for help before trying to take it on myself.Continue reading “God, I Need You”
S T R E A M S + T H O R N S 