dailyprompt – Page 2 – My Little Hawk

wiser by the hour

I don’t put dates in my journal. Everything is one big script in black ink, page after page of neural pathways that run into a dead end and reroute to find another. Days and months spilled into one, so my journal reflects that.

on the threshold

What do you think humans, an evolving part of nature, witnessed that was so incredible they reached for the divine to explain it? What was the first thing that inspired mystery?

go get that tattoo.

I have a tattoo of a phone number for my grandparents’ house. That was the only number I would’ve picked up and answered growing up. I hated talking on the phone! The number is no longer in use.

between always and never: going back in time

Regrettably, I lived a life full of things I want to change. But it brought me here today. So I learned to let go. But most of all, I learned that nothing compares to grief.

About Life and Uncertainty

For better or for worse, life is uncertain. It allows me to dream, as much as fear, what comes next. So there’s no way to approach it. It is a space in which life happens.

Navigating Adulthood

All my childhood, with how I held myself, I always ran ahead of time. Then, at one moment, I stopped to catch my breath, and when I wanted to start again, life had already passed me by.

Coastline in Ruin

In a tragic instant, people lost everything. It’s hard to find words to grasp the immensity of this event. Seeing the beautiful green coast I grew up in reduced to ash is heartbreaking.

Dinner with Bourdain

I’ve been reading Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential throughout the summer. So who I imagine joining me for a meal is none other than that eccentric cookie.

When All Goes Down in Flames

But to see not a single person stop by to make sure we’re okay was honestly so devastating and disappointing. That’s why Slovenia has my heart.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Sometimes you’ll have some good cards dealt to you, and other times it’ll feel like you’re out of luck. For me, I was convinced for the longest time that it was cloudy when my lucky star was being assigned. Life was happening, and I didn’t seem to have a good grasp of it. So, thoseContinueContinue reading “Things never happen the same way twice.”