Rebelle Society

When It’s Time To Surrender And Start Something New.

Sometimes it seems easier to keep holding on because these things and relationships feel safe and familiar even when they’re very painful to us. But how can you receive something new when your hands are full with holding on to these old memories? There comes a time when you, carefully, need to ...

art

Feet On The Air And Head On The Ground: Living A Sustainable Creative Life.

When I started prioritizing writing -- getting up earlier so I could write before the kids woke up, saying No to morning coffee invitations, and resisting the call of all the little countless other things that begged for my attention -- I finally found the space and commitment to write regularly.

art

The Beast And I: Seeing All Of Myself.

And as my heart told her that it loved her, that 'I' love her, she began to sob. She sobbed the trillions of tears that had formed the great ocean within her. And I held her in my arms as I watched them fall, one by one to the ground, and explode into a million particles that quenched the ...

wisdom

Let’s Stop Limiting Our Self-Worth Based On Societal Projections.

No one can convince me that a woman doesn’t become even more beautiful, talented, successful, strong, happy, fulfilled and centered the older she gets. People will try to tell you differently, but I strongly believe that statistics are only important if you’re interested in becoming one of them.

wisdom

Grief: The Devastating Truths Behind The Tears.

And we ask, what’s wrong with me that I feel this way? What’s wrong with me that I see these things others don’t see, that I can’t accept what they accept? What’s wrong with me that I couldn’t fix it, couldn’t explain it, couldn’t stop it, didn’t protest, cried alone? You say, what if they had ...

world

Oh, Baby, Baby, It’s A Wild World… And What A Wonderful World Too.

I have been away from here most of my life, and coming back and seeing people in constant fear, pictures of dead bodies every day in the newspapers, the harassment in the streets, the machismo, sexism so raw and alive, corruption and injustice multiplying, stray cats and dogs, all the poverty, ...

art

To Be A Writer.

We want you to sigh in heart-heavy disbelief, especially at the end of the story when the little child dies or the mother returns, too late, much too late, or both of these things happen on the same damn page, in the same damn paragraph, leaving you distraught, welling up, swimming in a river ...

smile

Slowing Down: A Fast From Fast.

As a pastor, I work six days a week, and, on the seventh day, I preach and counsel people and work some more. The clock will not slow down -- only I can. God modeled an unhurried life, and, if anyone has a reason to be urgent, it is God. After all, He has the fate of the world on His shoulders. ...

you & me

The Surrender House: Come And Rest, Weary Traveler.

We may abide together according to the gentle ebb and flow of the passing days. I make no demands of you. We are old friends, you and I. In a childhood long since forgotten, you once blossomed and flourished here. Your innocent laughter joyously echoed from my walls. Your carefree bare ...

poetry

The Reasons I Write: Ode To The Pen In My Hand. {poetry}

I am writing because I want to impress the impressive and repress the repression.

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