For as long as it has existed, music had been used as an outlet for emotional expression for both its creators and its listeners. Artists and fans alike find music to have coping and healing qualities. With fans often crediting their favourite albums or artistsContinue reading
Duality
Half Empty. Half Full. From the moment we are born, tears are seen as filling empty cups. They drip and drip, Bring forth nothing, while also leaving behind nothing. They empty our hearts, and they empty our eyes. All they leave behind is emptiness.Continue reading
For Goldie
Goldie, perfect things come in small packages: gold rings and goldfinches, sun-soaked raindrops, marigolds, goldenrods, memories golden-hued, and you, dear Goldie, too. You shared with us such time-worn treasures: the swimming hole, orchids blooming ferociously in Hawaiian humidity, children lost and children gained – yourContinue reading
You, and Her.
The sun burned holes in everything she saw. Or, rather, everything that saw her. And yet, still, you were enamoured by her. In this way, she seemed unattainable. She melted snow, and stress, and faces She paved way for bloom. Thawing the iceContinue reading
Sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own Both the Water and City excerpts are written in relation to the Sky. I recommend reading that one before each of the other two. What:Continue reading
a Normal Day
I walked through the doors nonchalantly, completely unaware of the terror that awaited me behind them. Everything was going as it usually would – a Normal Day of school: Bus. Class. Another Class. Lunch… and of course, a BathroomContinue reading
I Know Not How To Write
Idea(s), Sometimes my mind can conjure up nothing but hatred towards you, its own lack of creativity. Smothering seeds and stomping on flowers that it created itself. Smothering you. It leaves me sitting blank-faced, frozen fingered for Seconds, Minutes, Hours- until, eventually, I takeContinue reading