My #BeReal guest today is Jennifer Hildenbrand. Being real is so many different things. It is about who you are in every phase of life. Who you choose to be each moment. We are all real even when we are pretending to be someone else because pretending is a choice we make. Much of Jennifer’s…
My #BeReal guest today is Melissa Senecal. From one short person to another… Thank you for being real with us today Melissa! I have my reasons to #BeReal in my life. First of all I’m short (barely 5′ tall). I have taken lots of good-natured ribbing from people my whole life. Yes, I’ve heard all…
My #BeReal guest today is Matthew Blashill. When I think of good guys, Matthew is always on that list. He has a beautiful heart, a wonderful imagination, and he is a loving husband and father. OK this may sound like a eulogy but he is very much alive and I am so very grateful for that.…
My #BeReal guest today is Dawn Daum. This post is proof that the things we do and say really can matter. I continue to search myself every time I read a new #BeReal submission. I am finally realizing just how much of a work in process I am. Thank you Dawn for challenging us to call…
My #BeReal guest today is Kristi Rieger Campbell. Kristi allowed me to share this piece, which on the surface of it, is a Monday of epic and immensely challenging proportions, and at the same time, is just another day filled with the commonplace, Mondayish things that fill each person’s world with a complex and ever-changing…
Winter met my falling tears solidifying their instability memorializing them in ice Frozen prismatic reminders reflecting the fading light of all the lives I left behind All the words I’d lost left behind and ignored forever confined and suspended Every thought born alone like fingerprint snowflakes from a mind frozen and numb Every season of…
Today’s #BeReal guest is Accidentally Reflective. So far we have had images of people to go along with each post but today our guest will remain anonymous. This does not make her any less real. Perhaps it allows her to be even more real. Hasty Words asked this question recently as part of her inspiring…
It comes and goes Like a river flows Over topography Volatile churning Erasing solid rock Yawning and tired Old and worn out Until it finds her Endless beauty Never changing Diving into air Lunging into life Eternal love So much so She feels like life
You’re are the reason I open my eyes Why I care at all About the sunrise You are the reason I go to bed at night In hopes I’ll dream You love me And We will be alright
I don’t know what it is like to be the mom of little boys. However, I am the mom of a little girl who is just now starting to notice little boys are a bit more than giant cooties running around. So right now this is how I see every little boy lol. Some see sadness Some…
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