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Homelessness And the Man At the Waterfall
I KNOW I SAID I WAS TAKING A BREAK UNTIL JUNE BUT I COULDN’T RESIST. I MISS WRITING. So I am going to share an old journal writing that still affects me when I think about the two instances that occurred that inspired this entry to be written. Homelessness is on my mind. The Boy With the Sad Eyes There are moments in my life that stop me cold and my heart hurts. During those moments I start contemplating my own life and how I could have helped someone and maybe didn’t. One of these moments was a few years ago passing through a Taco Bell drive-thru window. I…
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Taking a Break
In my everyday, grownup life I have a full time job. I am an Event Planner. I love what I do even though I would rather be writing and doing my art full time. But a girl needs to pay the bills! So I go to work at 8am every week day and I write at night or weekends. And am still trying to find time to slide my artwork creativity into the hours of the day. May is my absolute busiest time of the year at work. I am at a University and this is the month leading up to Commencement. Not only am I in charge of planning…
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Mental Abuse and Doormats
Here is a past journal entry from July 2007. My eyes were finally starting to open to the mental abuse around me from everyone I love. It still amazes me how I allowed myself to be treated this way. What happened to my sense of self worth? Before My Eyes Opened Monday, July 9, 2007 “Doormats” Doormats! Handy little things. They just lay around outside through all kinds of weather, getting stepped on, mashed, beaten, kicked. Then having to deal with everyone’s crap being wiped on them. Just so that person can enter into their nice clean environment. Leaving the doormat to deal with the dirt!!!! There is a question…
EMPOWERMENT, TRAVEL AND AGING GRACEFULLY
