CARING FOR ROCKS BY Anna Grundström There is an old Hindu saying that goes something like this: A person is unable to fill their treasure chest with jewels while it’s…
HEALING BY BRAD EWELL Our need for healing is a hard sell to people not living in Adoptee Land. What could we possibly have to heal from? Everyone’s seen Annie…
ALLURED INTO LIFE BY JULIAN WASHIO-COLLETTE LISTEN TO THE AUTHOR READING: I lie in anxious anticipation on the couch at the beginning of an all-day therapeutic session. I wear an…
VALLEY OF SHAME BY AKARA SKYE The definition of shame, according to Merriam Webster: A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety; A condition of humiliating disgrace…
FAMILY VACATION BY AUDREY B Family vacation from family relationships with truth forever language absent permanence living extremes as average write the brick as a feather above the sun under…
A kaleidoscope life BY LUCIA BLACKWELL I was sitting on the couch the other night watching TV with my husband when a rogue wave of grief rose up and threatened…
SPIRIT ANIMALS BY KELLY ROBERTS She turned right off the main desert highway. Impatient white trucks sped past her to their important destinations. She was alone on her healing journey…
The Mix-Up:Restart or Resume BY Heather Schultz Gittens My eyes remain in a trance-like state as I process the email from Ha-eun*—my case worker from the National Center for the…
You Can’t Fall in Love Without Consent BY ANGELEEN ROHDA If this was romantic love, maybe You’d see the effect of power dynamics Causing the vulnerable to always remain small…
It Begins When it Ends BY LYNNE CONNOR It begins when it ends. Just the two of us, standing on the corner of Pine and Walnut, 4:55 a.m. on the…