Our Story

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it

go,

to let it go." - Mary Oliver, In Backwater Woods

I am not the villain of your story

You aren’t that in mine.

I hope that if you’re reading (seeing) this

You know that we are fine.

I hope you’re caring for yourself

and, maybe, started saying no

to things that jeapordize your health

or make you feel like you can’t grow.

I hope that when you think of me

it’s mostly happy thoughts

like when you hear the songs I’d sing

or see flowers that I bought.

I hope that when you get good news,

you know I’d love to hear it.

I hope that you can own your truth-

and know better than to fear it.

And when “only the good remains”,

that’s what you said so I’ll believe it,

I hope we’ve licked our wounds and feel no pain

The past can stay now, where we leave it.