_JOY_

Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail,
Like the roistering wind
That laughs through stalwart pines.
It floods me like the sun
On rain drenched trees
That flash with silver and green.

I abandon myself to joy -
I laugh - I sing.
Too long have I walked a desolate way,
Too long stumbled down a maze
Bewildered.
~ Clarissa Scott Delaney


Thoughts of my sweetness make me feel like that. Everyday. If someone had told me 3 months ago that ... read more

Sometimes life offers you surprises in the form of people it sends your way. What you at first think will just be another run of the mill random encounter with someone who won't offer you anything more than the last 20 people you've met, can turn and twist and offer up an experience so far from what you expected and from what you remember being possible, that it seems foreign. I've been surprised lately. In a very good way that I've missed without truly realizing it for too long. Whether it... read more

Technically it was my 2nd time at RWB, but it still had that first time feel to it. It was the first time I stayed the night and got to experience waking up to go sit on the beach, the communal breakfast fires, and dancing with the sun beating bright and strong down on me . I've gotten to know some faces from tagging along to other events and parties (someone loves me and invited me- yay!), and there are still so many wonderful people that i want to get to know. There is just such a wonderfu... read more