Eccentric Tea Woman

  After crying, I decided to meditate so that I could finally listen to the silence. Eyes closed, mouth in need of moisture, I felt nothing, yet heard the house settling all around me.  Cracks, a sigh too deep to be anything else, and soon the heater came on providing me with that wonderful white noise. I am terrified of silence and what it represents. Noise has been my babysitter ever since I said yes to giving up my life. Perhaps we need more silence in our hate-filled world.  Maybe then we can finally speak our truths.  Viridian Tea Company - Strange and Unusual Tea Blends! Click HERE for the Etsy store link!

I think writers are gods- To create a life within a sentence Give it breath or a disease To finally cut it short Like Fate, shears in blood Rusted. The power of the Word, written, oral These powers come at a dear price- The loss of sanity. But, sanity is a blocker To uncharted areas, ideas Fantasies, images. I gave up my sanity at 13. Virginity at 19. My colours are brighter, now. Faces appear while my caramel fingers Move across a keyboard, or hold a pen The ink precious, like angel tears. The lives I create are mine to mold, Destroy and learn from. I am mad, true But my Fate is here, varied and colour-full. Viridian Tea Company - Strange and Unusual Tea Blends! Click HERE for the Etsy store link!  

For quite some time, I hated Winter. Winter, to me, was the symbol for the upcoming Christmas season, a time when simple drives would become encumbered by ice and/or snow on the streets. A time when you're so cold that your fingers go terribly numb and all you want is a very hot cup of tea or hot chocolate. I hated having to deal with ice storms in the South; when two flakes of snow appeared, everyone went into a panic. When I moved to Colorado, I realized that the Winter I had previously experienced in the South was nothing compared to the Winter out here. Snow is a big deal out here and when it hits, it HITS. My neighbourhood is still under some of the snow from our last storm and the melting is slowly yet surely happening. I hate the thought of driving in the snow because I don't have a truck. I don't have an SUV. I have a Toyota Corolla, and an old one at that. I really, truly hated Winter. Today changed all of that. As I enjoyed a cold walk around the lake near where w...