“Surviving Self-Awareness” IS A Thing!

As far as I was concerned, I was taking a long sabbatical from writing poetry and was gonna be completely focused on different types of continuous prose.  However, poetry decided that it wasn’t done with me, and in the midst of my departure, poetry instructed me to engage, by sometimes literally waking me in theContinue reading ““Surviving Self-Awareness” IS A Thing!”

The Dangers of Forgiveness

Many solid-appearing relationships (platonic, romantic, etc.) are sustained by different motivations that do not require any depth or real considerations of forgiveness when things go awry.  Then there are those relationships where there are regular emotional check-ins with private and public acts of respect.  In these relationships, people hold themselves and their “relationship partners” accountableContinue reading “The Dangers of Forgiveness”