Featured Image: The New York Times Where will you be, when the smoke clears, and the protests die off, when your social media is no longer plastered with indignant cries for justice, or videos of people being tear-gassed and run over, and the news channels have moved on? Where will you be, when the companies […]
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I. I’m a weed trying to be a flower. An envious shadow surrounded by loveliness. How I wish to be, to be what isn’t me. I see golden sunflowers standing tall and proud. Roses, daisies, blooming marigolds unfolding into the sun’s kiss. The beauties of the garden dancing delicately in the wind. I still strain […]
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These thoughts have always been tumbling through my brain perilously. I have vague memories of those first moments, when some alien crevice erupted with thoughts and feelings I couldn’t understand. I had cracked open something that let loose a glimpse into my core. I thought I had drowned these thoughts, but they bubbled up, and […]
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When I first saw you experience anxiety and depression, you could not name it. Maybe you thought if you didn’t talk about it, it wouldn’t be real. Maybe you thought you had to be strong for us, to pretend that things were okay, that you weren’t hurting inside. You never had to say it out […]
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