This year will be different

It's been almost exactly an entire year since two of the most difficult and trying things happened in my life. After a year of struggle, pain, growth and extreme trials, I'm finally starting to feel a real shift back to myself and normality. 

Time to celebrate. 

My Friend's Divorce

I want her

to dig up

every plant 

in her garden

the pansies

the pentas

roses

ranun culus

thyme and lilies

the thing nobody knows

the name of

unwind the morning glories

from the wire windows

of the fence

take the blooming

and the almost blooming

and the dormant

especially the dormant

and then

and then

plant them in her new yard

on the other side of town

and see how 

they breathe.

-Naomi Shihab Nye

And who I've been listening to almost non-stop lately-