Joyful Ruins

Discovering joy in the hard places


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  • How to feel Discomfort

    To make peace with discomfortis not an easy task To sit with itAccept itTo face itand not make it an enemyTo somehow make itbackground noisenot the chorus of my dayTo come to the place of courageknowing that there is strength in methat rises above this noiseand keeps livingHow do you live with this?Hold it tenderlyRespond Continue reading

  • Feelings Freed

    I do want to feel it all The lust The anger The compassion and elation I’ve bottled it up for so long Now they must come out for me to learn who they are and how they shape me I was told to hide them to only shine the light on Forgiveness Goodness and submission Continue reading

  • The Truth about Moving

    And then the loneliness hit me like a tidal wave Too busy before to notice Somewhere new Beginning again It’s the moments you take to slow down I was watching tv and felt the loss of my parents then I realized I am alone again and will be for the foreseeable future I know it Continue reading

  • Poet’s Heart

    Speak your poems to nature let your poems be for you An affirming of who you are Delight in them without anyone else Truly, Celebrate, cry, laugh Absorb their beauty Treasure them and nature will be your audience When it hurts to share such vulnerability with others remember this Continue reading

  • Words and I

    I am these words I write My poetry is part of me I cannot express otherwise Romantic Wise Tragic Fierce Connected to nature myself God others It’s so intertwined with myself that when no one notices them or cares it honestly feels like part of me has been witnessed and found ugly and worthless Continue reading

About Me

An obsessive journaler who loves meeting others along their journey and giving them a hand to hold through pieces of writing. I write about the heartbreaks of life and the joys, the ups and downs, and I often learn my greatest lessons and miracles from nature.

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