It’s that time of day when I hear a voice. Socrates called it a daemon, his ‘internal oracle’ – his demon? a higher self? divided mind? we let our conscience be our guide, but where do our earthly thoughts reside? My guardian angel keeps time, my muse whispers till I turn, turn around and tune it […]
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She was a cat more than anything else – she loved to stretch across the floor, with black hair that stuck, on all my white socks. She screamed for love, but purred with soft groans. And her green eyes, so huge, always watching, always waiting, I gave full consent, and unwound at her touch. Tricia Sankey Image Credit […]
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You ask me to make you feel something in this drab world flung upside-down don’t look for the answers in your cracked, fortune cookies – just tear them to shreds and toss out your fears, there is only the now, with wide eyes, right here. Image Credit Tricia Sankey
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We’re all traveling somewhere, but it’s not until you the let the current move your soul, not just your feet, that you see the way the water ripples, the way the sun spreads it’s light, you see the space that you’ll fit in the nook just up ahead, under lavender, lost leaves. And it’s a […]
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She had just applied her chapstick when he offered her a drink. They sat in first class, which was almost empty. She didn’t want the drink. “No thanks,” she said and waved it away. He never took no for answer. It was the way he arched his brow as he carefully slid the cold drink into her right hand that annoyed […]
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What would you do if there was only one way? Only one route to choose, the rocks smooth and untouched. There are people around you, so close, and you watch. Their feet never pass where you’ve traveled. For when their feet are tired they trod grassy hills, they sit under shade, turn their backs to the sun. But you hike every mountain, you squint […]
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She was in the middle of a complicated case, full of wonder and thought-provoking questions, her synapses sizzling from the peanut butter M&M’s she’d just retrieved from the company vending machine, when the inevitable happened. The low hum of an incoming call directed her attention to her phone and she promptly put on her headphones […]
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