Oleander RoseOn Letting Goand in the same breath that I want the complete dissolution of everything familiar I also want nothing to change.Sep 20Sep 20
Oleander RoseThe Morning I Fell in LoveThis morning air chills my bare shoulders as smoke curls around your fingers — dark against the barely lit sky.Aug 31Aug 31
Oleander RoseThings I didn’t Learn in Sunday SchoolEverything can be a prayer, if offered to God. Buttering your toast before the sun comes up, is a prayer. Breathing a sigh after a long day…Jul 27Jul 27
Oleander RoseTime for your morning check-inOne deep breath, lungs expanding heart still beating, a little noisily pounding like a drum in my ears, moving blood intoJul 9Jul 9
Oleander RoseI don’t want to be anyone’s ghostJake brushed the mud from the last place he’d been off the sides of his boots and swung his backpack over his shoulder again. He trudged…Jun 23Jun 23
Oleander RoseExcessive worry is my second skinmy therapist once told me “you have a generalized anxiety disorderJun 11Jun 11
Oleander RoseMove through it, they say.the only thing I embody is being human. freckled and imperfect inconsistent and unfaithful to my own heart.Jun 8Jun 8
Oleander RoseI said, I forgive you.There’s this thing called forgiveness. It’s written about in every religious text, I think. God calls upon us from the Bible to forgive…Jun 5Jun 5