I’ve been volunteering at DMCW for 9 months now and when you’re a staff volunteer, you see the same people come through every week. First, you get to know names and faces. Then you learn things like how Stanley takes …
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7 Things Sunday
A couple of years ago on Superbowl Sunday, four words came out of my mouth that changed everything. I moved back to Des Moines this weekend and in the process of packing up my belongings I found all my old …
Tenfinity
On December 31, 2005 I was in a big, beautiful ballroom watching my dad get married. To this day it is one of the best weddings I have been to, but at that time it also was one of the …
Just give me a candy heart.
Her armor is thin. She knows how this ends: the delicate ones bend. Oh God, thicken her skin when its arrows they send. She’s boarding up the door. She knows how this ends: trusting and expecting unearths the worst. Oh …
Tattoo & Taking Heart
Even though my parents were Christians and I grew up going to church with them, they were never pushy or forceful about religion. It wasn’t mandatory and they welcomed my questions and doubts. They wanted my faith to be something …
Inner|Outer
“If we give priority to the outer life, our inner life will be dark and scary. We will not know what to do with solitude. We will be deeply uncomfortable with self-examination, and we will have an increasingly short attention …
October 17
When Love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe …
7 Things Sunday
Since it is Easter… 7 (of many) reasons I think Jesus was the man: One. Jesus a radically awesome friend to women. There is a Jewish blessing that goes, “Blessed are you, Lord God, Ruler of the Universe, who has not made me …
On Break(throughs)
I just need a breakthrough. I keep telling myself this. I need a breakthrough at work, where a barrier crumbles and I’m let in. I’m allowed to swim through the tormented, beautiful minds. Where I’m listened to and asked to listen. …
7 Things Sunday
7 things I’m trying to do: One. Save $$$ for graduate school. If all goes as planned (which almost never happens in my life…so, we’ll see) I’ll be starting a MA in Arts, Festival, and Cultural Management in Scotland THIS September. I’m …
