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I thought I’d killed fear. Through and through with good intent. Committed the best of best on the worst day, money can’t buy. So there I was, holding fear by its tail dragging it from closet to closet. Even put it under the bed once. None that mounted up to a hill of beans. Not on a cold day, dress in my finest Sunday suit, going to church without me.I was ready to be fearless if there ever was such a thing.No, but you fear, have left me no choice. I don’t have to go far to find, where I’ve last laid eyes on you. In the mailbox – got me questioning my decisions and monies going. Hardly enough coming in. Under the hood of my car, wondering, scratching my head dealing with that headache.Can I go the distance, you say? You may have outsmarted me once, okay a few. I’ll give you that. I’d like to think I’ve held my own. I just want you to know. I’ve been asking around, doing my homework, if you will.This is beginning, of the end, a long road you and I.Without further ado, this letter will suffice, termination, immediate eviction, out of the corners of my mind! Don’t worry about returning the key.I’ve padded that lock with a deadboltIt’s time I dare myself, call in reinforcements if I have to. Use all my creative passion for the arts, I call life. And surely, courageously, read this back to myself and know,I’m the girl I’ve been waiting for.~your Kindness sis Krissy -
Dear November Notes,As you slip away into crisp, frozen hills of December,here’s what I’ve turned from stoned, into waters overflowing.I’ve befriended rejection as it sat next to me. Something I’ve smoothly rubbed into beautiful furs of living.As I am alive, the smiles of my children dazzle into snow-angels, playing in the snow. The curtains are full of posts notes. Notes of thanks, 21 days and counting. Abundance has met us in the worthiness of living, miracles-over- miracles, beyond-suffering.Close my eyes on sorrow, open my eyes to rosy-cheeks,Close my eyes on yesterday, open my eyes its morningClose my eyes on the evening news, open my eyes/ blink- that’s a blessingClose my eyes on the world open my eyes in peaceClose my eyes, citrus, and lavender, clothes are washingOpen my eyes, I’ve got work to doClothes my eyes, a taste of life, cherries on my paletteOpen my eyes, warmth in my veinsand here and now and new~kindness sis. Krissy -
Sometimes love comes at a price,sitting at the dinner tablemorning coffee, beeswax jelly beans, and a newspaperfour legs giveaways, the years unattended in empty parking lotsunsupervised, unapprehendedmany loves can’t afford to payeverybody watching/nobody seesbrother smoking cigarettes in my roombrother blowing smoke in my faceboth hands around my neck/ he squeezing the life outbut who I got to tell/ if everybody in the familyone big bully and me“don’t wear your emotions on your sleeves,stop crying over spilled milk but this ain’t milk “more like pure unadulterated hatred,nicknamed me burnt, Witch/ I don’t answerI can take a few blows to the head/macaroni’s getting cold/ I don’t want food or familysome futile leftover discussion/ how I should take the devilin because he don’t have any place to goAfter all, mama, if you invite the devil in, it will never leaveso this ain’t no invitationonly tough love, the well being of my safety/and a humbled slice of peace of mind~kindness sis. Krissy -

Dear Hope, I’ve been extra careful not to use your name in vain. Or become too spirited too soon. Mama’s always said not to be getting my hopes up. Although I’ve often seen it come alive in little children. I think it’s because they’re closer to God than all of us. All I know, we could use a spell or two, even use Emily’s Dickinson’ “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. ”
A dear expectation, of all this good. All that is miraculous. Drinking from fountains, flowing from the vines of healing trees. Fill our cups, God…
Hope for the nations
Hope for the homeless soldier
Hope for the abandon
Hope for the immigrant
Hope for the lonely
Hope for the friendless
Hope for the shut-in
Hope for the mothers
Hope for the motherless
Hope for the childless
for the dying
for the living
for the school teacher
for the police officer
for trauma victims
for social workers
for you and me
and those who have no hope ~kindness sister Krissy -

For the first time in forever, I appreciated the silence. The humming heater gently soothing the cold air. The front door wide open, allowing the foggy steam to blanket a warmth to the door.
Meanwhile, daybreak went rogue. Stretched across all the shadows in the night Then the soul-people gather themselves together huddled through tapered curtains of flesh.
A prize to be alive and not know it. Prize- dreams for the soul-people, dreams that die and are born again. Dreams, staying up all night. Dreams that turn souls into rivers.
rivers bursting through the cracks.
strong, lighthearted, genuine, persistent,
gullable steep, shallow memories.
walking rivers joined at the hip.standing bodies
what’s eating these waters
in gutters bursting
half skating skeletonsAmerican dreams eating us,
spittle down seeds something
we can grow
rivers, I suppose
un-used rivers
cold, chemicalized,
calculated tides but
what’s a river
with all our old shoes
torn, crunchy cereal boxes
tires, bloated fish
oil spills, garnish
sacred, holy prayersrivers gotta run
gotta flood out ~kindness sis. Krissy -
Today I became the silent wonderer in my mind. Unconsciously, I wanted to be living the dream. You know the one, the happily-ever-after, sweeps you off your feet. And there you sit in the passenger side watching the driver steer the white drawn horses down the city street.You turn and wave to people passing by. You let out a breath and it’s over back to reality sifting through the wreckage of my life. No, it’s not all bad but honey it’s no fairy tale.Although life is a vapor of mysteries here’s where I’m thankfulthankful for the gate where the winter birds sitthankful for the peace in my tiny homethankful for the roof over my headthankful for God who holds us all togetherthankful for the rejection, starring me through my emailsthankful to keep writingthankful for hopethankful for good healththankful for new and coming possibilitiesthankful to finally make the change I’d like to see in the world.and who knows, one day soon, I’ll be living the dream~kindness sis. Krissy -
God is both all of it and nothing of it. In essence, all of it. Then the mind can have none effect on the infinite God that lies within. None of it, known or will ever know, such great tender-fields that holds a mind, a world inside a world, beneath such beauty, in the midst chaos, inseparable stillness.
then I am whole,
then I embrace,
then I exchange,a little ” i ”
ignited,
endowed“I am that I am.”
~kindness sis. krissy -
Loving myself, for myself…
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In running for my very life. I’ve run from some things that didn’t need running from, only to wind up running again. Although the hills have laughed at me for some time now. I have not forgotten the lesson in climbing.
The hills have a message of its own. The temperature of the hills has pushed me back to the beginning. And I still climb, contending with its pressure. I pull. I ache. I met force with stumbling limbs over here over there.
All my life running is what I knew. To run out of my pain into fear. Run out of that into pressure. Running for my healing. Running to keep out the voices. Running the distance for my life.
Then I got tired sat still on that hill and I listened. Its glowing winds surpassing. Even the rocky steps relaxing, with green grass so sweet.
I could measure this small distance in defeat or finally,
I conclude the hills are me~kindness sis. Krissy
