Hope
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The Only Cure For Despair
Every human is confronted with the same decisions: believe the dark thoughts or cast them out. And I am realizing that intersection faced multiple times a day is really what makes or breaks a life. I am reminded again, you can have the whole world but lose your soul. Money is an illusion. Adventure can Continue reading
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What the Water Does For My Words
I don’t know why I get to this place away from the joy I used to know almost afraid to count my blessings nearly afraid to hope it’s been a long road towards home wet and muddy close to flooding I usually feel something different in the rain It’s always been my soul cleanse of choice Continue reading
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Tiny Lights, Tea Cups and Snowflakes
The other night I went to a Chinese Lantern Festival in Dallas. I walked through scenes that looked like something out of Alice and Wonderland or Willy Wonka. Beautiful lit-up sculptures looked ordinary until you got closer and realized they were made of out teacups or thousands of tiny vials filled with colored water. Things Continue reading
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As She Grapsed For Those Words
how do you make the world good? she asked rhetorically, with a hint of cynicism after all, she had seen her fair share of badness death and decaying hope overwhelming sorrow drenched her sheets until she rung them out with her frail hands squeezing droplets cementing in her consciousness never to let the world drop Continue reading
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How To Remember Well- Thoughts on 9-11 & Fear Vs. Hope
Ten years ago I sat in Junior English class and heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. To be honest, I vaguely knew what the World Trade Center was. At sixteen, I wasn’t really into New York architecture. I knew about the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 