Joyful Ruins

Discovering joy in the hard places


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  • Tell me your Story

    This poured out of me today as I feel very compassionately towards people who feel alone, are suffering, forgotten, ignored.This isn’t just a poem. It’s a true invitation. It’s an open ended, forever, authentic invitation to anyone who reads this to tell me your story, to know I am a presence of love and acceptance Continue reading

  • Seeing Beauty

    You’ve given me the gift To see beauty in it all In the pain In the spiders In the passing things of this world Not a disconnected Cliche sight No But a feeling Empathetic Holy beauty That sees your intended hands At work I see the weaving of the cobwebs Which glisten when rain drops Continue reading

  • Mother’s Day Poem for All

    Mother’s Day Poem for All

    To all the mothers By blood or not Here on earth Or up above To all those you have loved And tenderly cared for To those who were mothers To children not theirs Who kissed faces and dried up tears To new mothers on this day Experiencing the joy Of what they gave To bring Continue reading

  • Let Joy be Free

    Like you can’t hold onto a butterfly without damaging it’s wings You can’t take advantage of Joy without losing the feeling What I mean is When those sun soaked moments come all you can do is enjoy them trying to make them last trying to grip them will only cause you to miss them Continue reading

  • Unexpected Belonging

    It’s hard to leave a place that has so changed you To say goodbye to something Like transformation Those left behind Will move on And I suppose I will too But right now It feels heavy I found belonging in this Odd little Billings Though I fought Loneliness And frustrations The entire year here Somehow 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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