Mentors Re-Discovered

When you’re a young adult, I don’t think you really know who your mentors are. If you asked me at the age of nineteen, “who influences you the most?” I would have blithely replied “my friends”.
In my 3rd year of university, I started working part-time at the University as a Peer Health Educator. It was [...]

True

when wishes are spoiled
and hopes disfigured, I ask
is there a lesson yet unlearned?
did I miss Karma’s cue?
but in the darkness
I am reminded
I mapped my own course
true to the North of my compass
and a star reappears
for no matter how rough my path
it still belongs to me
and I am proud
to own it

Yes, I read my horoscope more than a creative writer should … but you can’t tell me there isn’t value in pondering this one:
If you don’t articulate your conscious desires,
your unconscious patterns will come true.
… now if I could only figure out which one to tackle first – conscious or unconscious ?? I feel like [...]

one and the same

I can breathe again.
For the last six weeks, I’ve been suffering from a flu virus that alternately bestowed symptoms of coughing, low grade fever, stuffed sinuses, (repeat, repeat, repeat, etc.).
At first, I thought I was suffering from burnout. Then, I wondered if eating well and exercising was a myth. This was followed by a suspicion [...]

deconstruction

For about two years in a row, whenever I got my Tarot cards read, I would always get the Tower card.
I thought it was an accursed card.
Diane tried to convince me that all cards in Tarot bring both light and darkness; one card isn’t worse than the other. But what was I supposed to think [...]