the third day
Hope and the willingness to let the day roll over you is a discipline, which means that sometimes it is VERY HARD and you have to practice interrupting your own...
Author: Nix Kelley
Co-parent to multiple kids. Writer. Death doula. Member of the Order of the Good Death. Seeker on the Path of Light. Queer, non-binary, & trans.
the second day
Darkness is no friend to the light. And the more we build our fire, the bigger and brighter it is.
the first day
Today’s failures were the small mistakes, the ones we say or act without forethought. Today’s anxiety kept us from perfection, but it always does that.
twelve days
We are in a time of darkness but also a time when the promise of the light returning is deeply meaningful.
reaching toward the light
Trauma causes us to create new ways to behave, to keep ourselves safe, to keep the dark away.
I dream of disappointing my mother
I had a bad dream which was trying to be a good dream, but it was a bad dream because none of it is true.