I've written about love and pain for as long as I can remember. Even when I was a child in the system, being trafficked, silenced, and surviving things no child should ever have to survive, words became life to me. They were the way I poured out what I couldn't speak, the way I was able to keep breathing beneath the weight of it all.
Yet I sit here by the grace of God alone. Were it not for His hand upon my life, I would not have survived the fires I've walked through. And the same grace is what delivered these words from within me onto the page.
Cinder & Ivy: Poetry and Prose for the Beautifully Broken is the book that resulted from that walk. It holds the echoes of brokenness and resilience, the ache of loss, and the stubborn promise of love.
I wrote it for me, yes, but more than anything, I wrote it for the survivors. For the foster kids. For the people who know what it is to be broken and still reach for something greater.
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2026 can get fk'd at this point.
RIEP to one of the most versatile actors of all time.
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Post partum is a thing.
Having said that, psych meds aren't the fkn answer to post partum.
Having said that, neither is fkn murder.
All 3 things can be simultaneously true.
A woman invested one hundred fifty thousand dollars from her personal retirement funds so that senior women would have access to reasonably priced housing and avoid spending their later years in solitude.
In the town of Cumby, Texas, seventy-year-old Robyn Yerian withdrew resources from her 401(k) account to establish The Bird’s Nest, a collection of compact residences designed expressly for older women who wanted both low-cost living arrangements and the company of others.
Across a five-acre property, Robyn arranged for essential services and prepared fourteen plots suitable for tiny homes. At present, eleven women ranging in age from sixty to eighty reside there, each contributing roughly four hundred fifty dollars monthly.
The residents discovered benefits that extended well beyond modest rental costs.
They prepare and enjoy meals together, assist with daily tasks, monitor one another’s health during periods of sickness, and gather beneath a shared outdoor structure. The setting has evolved into an environment in which advancing age need not equate to social isolation.
Interest in the community has been substantial. Robyn is said to have obtained over five hundred inquiries for the limited fourteen available positions.
She might have devoted her entire retirement nest egg exclusively to her own needs. Instead, she directed a portion of those savings toward creating an asset that many seniors value as highly as shelter itself: a neighborhood in which no individual is required to grow old in isolation.
Life over at 14 over a vape.. and people are worried about arguing on the internet when we got kids who have 0 understanding of morals and consequences. unreal.
Yea, that was our high school this time...
I'm processing, I work with kids in that school.
Say a prayer for the families of Warner Robins GA that had students at school yesterday please.
No this wasnt some bs publicity stunt, I was here. Just pray, dont make it a fkn conspiracy please.
What if you were a card all along, and the country is the house and division is the determining force that essentially wrecks it all.
Would be a shame if WWG1WGA literally meant united we stand and divided we fall right?
Would also further suck if the house that was being held up, was the only one subsequently protecting or shielding children with awareness and now that its falling all around in bitterness the focus is lost...
Would be a damn shame if any of this were the hard truth of it all.