Where love, heartbreak, and healing live in words
The Universe Keeps Making Beautiful Things The universe is older than memory. It has spent billions of yearsteaching stars how to burn,teaching oceans how to dance with the moon,teaching wildflowers how to bloomthrough cracks in forgotten stone. And somehow— after all this time— it still has not run out of beautiful things to make. When…
For a long time I thought healing would arrivelike weather. A clean front moving through. One morning I would wakeand the sky inside mewould be different. Your name would no longer pullat the tide. The memories would settlelike dust at the bottom of a river. I waited for that season. I mistook forgettingfor freedom. But…
Someone asked me if I am single.I laughed and said yes. and they asked if I was dating. I said no. Because how do I explainthat my heart belongsto someonewho never really chose it? How do I explain that the hardest partisn’t that I chosewalk away, it’s that he taught mewhat it felt liketo be…
I built a homewith open windowsand a door that never locked. I made space for youin waysyou never asked for. You came and wentlike it was yours—like I would always be therewaiting. I learned your footstepsyour silencethe way you stayedjust long enoughto leave again. And I called it love. But love doesn’t visit. Love stays.…
I woke up with gratitudesitting gently beside grieflike they’ve learned how to share a roomwithout speaking. Today something wonderful happened. The kind of thing that would have had me reaching for my phone before I had fully finished smiling. And I did. For one second, I forgot. Forgot that we don’t talk anymore. Forgot that…
for a long time I thought my lifewas somethingjust beyond me waiting on the right personthe right momentthe right version of myself I kept reachingfor a future that always seemedone step away and while I was searching life was happening in quiet mornings in laughterI almost didn’t notice in small momentsthat asked nothing from me…