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.
what did I do this week?
I felt that I was playing favorites and hurting books’ feelings and my thought process got stuck there for a while.
TDOR: our safe spaces become violent
I want to remember my trans siblings today, but instead I have to witness from afar the same thing that always happens to us: violence, death, hatred.