Have you ever seen those game shows? The ones where people are crammed in see-through booths, a switch is flicked, air blows, then the contestant grabs all the fying money they can, stuffing it anywhere they are able? Or an Easter egg hunt? Or black Friday? People get plowed over, so the hunters can grab their […]
Our fruit trees didn’t produce last year. It was like, in the middle of a nationwide pandemic, the trees blossomed, in anticipation of fruit, but then remained still… The flowers wide open, eventually browned, then fell to the ground. We didn’t know what was happening. For over a dozen years, our trees have produced crops; apples, […]
His muddy boots were a terrible mirror. Heavy steal toes, clomping up the stairs on the back porch. Tired, weary, covered with cement. The earth clung to my dad. And when he got home, I found joy in taking my tiny hands to help him unravel his laces, loosen those loops, and pull off his boots… […]
I lied to my dad. I knew I was doing it. Despite he had raised me to hold honesty in the highest regard… Of all the virtues, “Lying shatters your character”. I can still hear the heart of who he was, in me. Call me a sinner, not a saint; deceiver instead of a good person. […]
Brittle bones, but bold spirit. She stands, completely alone, on a stage before one of the world’s biggest audiences. Her stature is like a 1990’s model; no form, no shape. Hair cropped. My mind stretches, “What’s her story? Why is she here?” And I think that is also our question. For Nightbirde. For ourselves. Who are […]
Dark, olive eyes, stare straight at me, like a leapord, aching for a meal. Burning through my soul, like midnight oil, from the side of the road. Seven, maybe eight years old… Still, little did I know, he taught me with that gaze, tested my heart and what true strength was; moving me towards generosity. My […]