Author: Our Collective

Somewhere along the line, the yes of my youth got washed aside. I grew too heavy to stand like a lighthouse on my father’s raised arms. I knew too much about pitch and tone to shamelessly let my pipes blow from the top of the...

As a young girl, I had visions of my future in increments.  That is, I could see into the future, where my life would take me but just until I graduated College. I knew where I would attend elementary school. I new I would attend...

Do you know the dream I speak of? The kind that washes over you with no image, no words? Nothing but a feeling of a particular kind of emptiness. The kind of emptiness that calls your name from a place unknown, unseen, familiar. Few sit in that dark place...