Falling in the Cracks (Poetry)

There are mornings I wish I could borrow your backbone, stand with the calm you carry like it’s always been yours. I wish strength didn’t feel like something I...

Unconditional Love is Apolitical (Poetry)

Love shows up barefoot. No talking points. No rehearsed outrage. Just hands open and a willingness to stay.

Freedom to Love, Freedom to Choose

Relationships deserve privacy. Not secrecy, but protection. Privacy allows love to grow without judgment, without fear, and without outside voices attempting to define what...

We Are No Longer Rebels (Poetry)

You feed me love without cages, without debt, a language spoken in patience, in listening, in staying.

In The Spotlight: Brian Maulana-Ponce

Sometimes you have to try new things, or learn a new skill, expand a service, learn more about how something works – and rebuild, rebrand,...

The Discipline of Being Helped: What People Do for You, and Why That’s Okay

There is a moment in every survivor’s life when help feels suspicious. A kindness offered becomes complex. A favor is tallied in the margins...

Hot Cocoa, Hay Bales, and the Quiet Grief of December

Snow arrived early this year, slipping in quietly like it remembered where it belonged. The snow that doesn’t ask permission, just settles into the...

A Pause, a Film, and a Conversation Worth Having

At its core, the story shows what becomes possible when athletes, veterans, and community leaders sit down without posturing, ego, or division. It demonstrates...

Second Chances (Poetry)

And in that rare quiet between your faith and my becoming, I found something I never thought I’d earn— a second chance wrapped in the warmth of being truly...

Envy (Poetry)

You even dare to challenge the strength of our leaders, the very people who stand in the storms you could never weather. Yet you...
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