Lessons were learned. — On the 12th of September 2021, I left my home country of Jamaica to continue my post-secondary education in the city of Edmonton, found in the center of the northern Canadian province of Alberta. Yes, I a young woman knowing only the scorching summers…

We all suffer from them from time to time — When you’ve outgrown the things you once loved , When they no longer serve you the way they once did, You are now forced into a space unknown, Unfamiliar, without the safe harbor you once knew. You must now fit yourself into this new space and time, To reinvent your picture…

A common affliction for high achieving anxious people. — I have struggled with anxiety for majority of my life. My mother likes to tell me that I was always a worrying child, from the impending end of the world to if sinister secret societies were actually real. That was my head space in grade school and looking back at…

And it still continues to — I am pretty sure I am being redundant when I say that 2020 was a very hard year for the entirety of the human race. If you made it through 2020 and into 2021 with all your family members in good health, a roof over your head and the rest…

I will age gracefully. — What is age? When supple skin gets hardened, When bright eyes go dull, Strength becomes scarce. What is being ageless, The acquisition of knowledge, The weathered smiles, The soft but sharp eyes, The knowing glances. I fear not age, For the fear of age is to fear life itself, I will…

I’m so glad I found you — Hello you, one I have found, How long have we waited to meet, An instant connection is one we have, As if we had know each other before in a different time, in a different life. Though similar, we are quite different, Our personal struggles run opposite, Parallel paths that converge in…

JUST KEEP GOING — For the days when you can not get a win, no matter how hard you try, For the days so traumatic it takes everything you have not to break down and cry. For the days where you think it’s all your fault and it can not be fixed, For the days…

A disastrous push and pull — A swirling crash in the blustering soup, A reflection of the Gods’ upset. Which causes the knowledgeable anxiety It comes in on the mist, All can tell by a spray of salt that may tingle the tip of the nearest tongue, What was once calm as become nothing but movement. A push and…