My heart weeps.

Today, I realized just how much everything around me is broken.

It hurts when you never wanted to break things. Even when they weren’t really in good shape in the first place. Because however broken they were, you kind of knew what to expect.… Read more

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Room to Grieve.

The past month has probably been the busiest I’ve been for a while. Sometimes I wonder if diving into work was my way of coping with the chaos, or if I really just had that much to do. I think it was a little of both – my workload definitely expanded while I refused to just dwell on what’s happening around me.… Read more

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When God Sends You Heartaches.

Sometimes I wish I weren’t so bulletproof.

It’s been an emotionally exhausting week – a few weeks, actually.   I’ve had to deal with one emotional blow after another.  Weekends are spent in a semi-vegetative state, crying or just trying to make sense of things.… Read more

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I Choose the Pain.

I have survived more than a few painful heartbreaks.  Most of them were messy.  The more recent ones were quite subdued and highly private.  But it took this one last painful experience to make me realise – there is beauty in suffering.  … Read more

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Beauty from Ashes.

He told me I’m beautiful.

He was the only man I knew who had ever said that to me.

In my adult life, there have been men who had told me I’m very pretty or attractive. That I’m highly date-able, sexy, or even hot (which I don’t exactly consider a compliment, but we’ll save that for some other time).  … Read more

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