Homecoming

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The Motion Toward Restoration
It’s the knowing that’s the hardest part and it doesn’t happen all at once.
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How to Return
I have indeed felt that expanse - when my feet bare felt earth soft and cold underneath. When my skin lie on hot white sand. When I watched the sun…
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There's Nothing Wrong With Us
A dream and a letter to Gen Z, Millennials and everyone else
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The Year of The
The year of the skunk was a year I learned to tell what wasn’t mine to stay away and to allow in only what was good and true.
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Jennifer and The Inhuman Institution
When dirt was in the process of no longer being home. The sky no longer residence of the great creator. The ocean no longer an edge of a mystery.
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Homecoming
Parched in the desert, we thirst for that which we forgot exists, but it's our souls that know, and our souls that moan, and our souls that are calling…
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Why Do Some Things Fit and Others Never Do?
And then on the other side is Greg, who pinches and kisses my cheeks and calls me his angel. Every morning he walks with his little, white dog past my…
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Spring in Tennessee
As the sun stays longer and friends talk at street corners longer, flowers purple and rabbits graze and sky blues and kids return to blankets on…
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Behind Eyes
His skin is dark like cherry. So dark, it’s red underneath. He wears overalls and has a gap as big as the Cumberland River between his two front teeth…
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On The Front Porch
Pass the collard greens. Pass the biscuits and the gravy. Then bring the extras next door.
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Home Begins in Water
Home begins with whooshing and mama’s voice through water. It begins with her breathing, a rhythm like her heart beating. Home begins in water.
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On Love & Hope
Open Water Swimming, The Romantics, Our Cat Ellie & Meeting God in Florida
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