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2022 - SICKLY EATERS

Grown

How did you get here so quickly? How, in such a short amount of time, did you manage to worm your way into the crevasses of my life? Somehow you're in everything I do now. Did you mean to do this?Did you mean to make yourself the first person I think of when I wake up?Whether it's waking up under the weight of a blanket that...

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To have... To lose...

Bewildered is the word. But is it even the word?Is there a word for this? For something that feels like it's both tearing me apart and wrapping me so tightly in its arms that nothing could ever divide me?I feel like I'm caught in the waves of an ocean storm, Tossed back and forth by unforgiving waves.Overwhelmed by forces beyond my own strength....

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beaten

I have wandered off the path that was beaten down for meHere the brush is verdant and wildI stumble through their reaching armsBranches and burrs clutch and clingTheir hands batter and halt my stepTheir fingers write on my flesh in black and blueTheir persistence consumes meTheir numbers confound meand yet I love them.  Green and aliveShadowed and defiantUnapologetic in survivalthis is my crusadeto...

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LILY AND INARA story book

1) He told her to kiss him, So she did 2) She didn't know when she'd lost her heart but she found it in his sleeping arms 3) She did everything she could SO... I'm struggling. Get ready for a stream of consciousnesssssssssss I keep realizing that I'm attaching these labels to Lily and Inara: weak/afraid/courageous/strong Which is exactly what I'm trying to...

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Application

  God has been showing me just how much he is involved in my life. I realized at the end of the last year that as much as I believed, I didn't have my identity in Christ and there were parts of my life that I wasn't giving up to him. I had been having a really hard time for the year leading...

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Lines in the Sand

What can I say?So much can change in a year ...

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Paradise

Most of these photos are actually from my good friend Michael Vo. I took mostly film shots that weekend, but there are a couple shots of mine that I'll mark. I can't believe it's been a year since I left this place. It was a true cosmos amongst the chaos for me. A small group of my home town friends decided to go...

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I want to know why something is good, not because I want to analyze it. But because I want to be able to then use that information to recognize the beauty in other things. --0 I want to know why something is good, not because I want to analyze it. But because I want to be able to then use that information to...

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Considering the negativity of "ew" knee-jerk reactions

Indulgence

The more I think about it. The more I realize that succumbing and giving into mental health struggles such as depression and anxiety and even my ADHD symptoms, is a luxury. As well as a privilege. That is not to say that it is not right for us to do so, but only that indulgence can do us no good. ...

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