Category: Thoughts

  • Some People Make the World Softer

    I didn’t know Dolly Parton. So I’m not going to write as though I lost a friend today. I was just one of millions who watched her, listened to her, laughed with her movies, and occasionally found myself smiling when one of her songs came through the speakers. But there’s something strange about losing people like that. They become part…

  • Journal Entry

    Some nights, sleep just evades me. My body is tired, the room is quiet, and there is absolutely no reason to still be awake. But my mind apparently didn’t get the memo. So here I am, somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow, listening to the silence and waiting for my thoughts to finally grow tired too. -Rowan Vale

  • Journal Entry

    There are parts of ourselves we show the world.And then there are the other parts.The thoughts we stop before they reach our mouths. The questions we learned not to ask. The desires we keep private. The anger we swallow because we’re supposed to be over it by now. The doubts that don’t fit neatly beside what we say we believe.The…