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Beyond Beautiful: A Letter To My Daughter
Dear Baby Girl, I can’t wait to welcome you into the world. You are brave to enter this place. It’s big and wide and complicated and dangerous. But it’s beautiful too. It’s filled with laughter and the smell of fresh-cut grass, and light shining on ocean waves and soon, you. Your arrival will make this Continue reading
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I’ve Decided to Forget About Self-Esteem
This morning in the shower I almost lost balance. My body feels so awkward as it stretches and grows, expanding to make space for the life inside me. It’s hard sometimes. One moment I am filled with joy at the thought of my coming baby, the next I just feel awkward and fat. Yesterday I Continue reading
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A Year Of Beautiful Changes
I can easily say this was the best year of my life so far. It’s kind of funny, because I used to judge how good my year was by how many places I traveled to. Take for instance the insanity that was 2008. I spent the beginning of the year in China, the middle of Continue reading
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A Thrill Of Hope
Joy and wonder. That is what I feel this Christmas. I gave up on this holiday for many years. I was tired of expectations and disappointments, disgusted by consumerism. I felt cynical and unsettled, jaded by “the true meaning of Christmas.” Then I spent one crazy Christmas in the jungle of Panama, and while riding Continue reading
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However Small the Source
however small the source of the sound of running water it is enormous in my soul I can’t tell you how the scent of damp leaves make tears leak only that I need to be in nature like breathing and You this is where I most clearly see Your name written etched in the Continue reading
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Inside’s Gold
from inside’s gold I can see the light shining around me peaceful and true I don’t want to know if I ever have to return to where the sky fell apart and the lines on the ground wove into a spinning pattern I am happy here yet I won’t forget the warmth inside stability’s arms Continue reading
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3 Things You Must Know About Marriage
I’ve been seeing an overwhelming amount of articles on Facebook with titles like these: 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Married 10 Things To Look For in A Mate 4 Things That Led To My Divorce They are usually posted by multiple people, adjacent to comments such as: “EVERYONE needs to read this Continue reading
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Tight-Rope Walking Across Manhatten
Change. I used to be so in love with it. I still am, but it’s more of a complex, love-hate relationship. Now, it brings worry that seems less easy to brush off, it clings to me causing occasional sleeplessness and intense feelings of anxiety. Change comes dressed in a variety of ways lately, in the Continue reading
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I Took Your Name
I took your name in taking your name I lost nothing but: loneliness the lie I can live life alone the confusion that happens when I attempt to make sense of the world by myself I lost any desire to search for someone else my cynical views of romance that tense, gnawing sense I Continue reading
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You’re My Adventure
Two weeks ago I married the love of my life. As I walked down the hill to a beach on a lake where my friends and family waited, and saw my handsome, grinning groom, I felt like I must be in a dream or the happy climax of a really great movie. It was such Continue reading
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Brooke Gale LouvieR 