• 2025 - Listening - Winter Writing Sanctuary Prompted

    My Declaration to Listen

    The first pearl in my Necklace Writing Prompt from Beth Kempton’s Free Winter Writing Sanctuary 2024 – SoulStack by Beth Kempton It was a day like any other day. Life crumbled around me and I did my best to gather up all the pieces and put them back together each night. It was a semblance of a life really. But that’s what I thought life was back then. That day, sometime in the haze between January and April, those pieces shattered as they hit the floor. And that day, I wasn’t trying to pick them up. Instead I walked slowly…

  • 2024 - Feelings - Listening - Physical Space - Winter - Winter Writing Sanctuary Prompted

    Clearing out and Taking up Space

    Thank you to Beth Kempton and the Winter Writing Sanctuary for this piece. January has me cleaning, organizing, settling things from the old year before I get into the new. (Because as far as I’m concerned, February and March actually start the New Year.)  And as the dust settles from December, I notice there is SO MUCH stuff. I get nervous with too much stuff around. It piles up and all of a sudden, I have to get rid of it. All of it. More than I probably should. It’s like a light switch goes off. And I “MUST DEEP…