~Jenuine I was lost for a minute a ship adrift at sea I had plotted my course made my way for the horizon kept one eye on the compass an’ one eye on the sky I let my sails unfurl and billow fat in the wind I was sailing steady I was sailing true until [...]

~Jenuine Would you still love me… Would you love my scars– my discolored, gnarled, footprints of pain? Would you love my shadows– the ones that darken my eyes every now and then? Would you love the cluttered corners and messy closets of my soul? Would you love the insecurities that tag along with my confidence? [...]

~Jenuine from so many different angles of our upbringing– media, society, religion– something has always told us that as women, we are responsible to keep everything we present to the world pretty, neat, tidy, delicious, lovely, attractive, and desirable— from our bodies to our dinner tables this notion has been ingrained into the innermost parts [...]

~Jenuine there is such an amazing calm after the fury of the storm after the tears pour down after the heart’s thunder subsides after the heaving sobs still there is quiet a hushed awe about the soul nothing stirs the body rests it is weary from the ravaging there will be time for picking up [...]

~Jenuine there are so many goodbyes too many to count there are those last goodbyes said on balloons released to the sky and with a little liquor poured out where they now lie there are the “see you later” goodbyes that are bittersweet— sad but not forever there are everyday goodbyes that are sometimes just [...]

“Ink runs from the corner of my mouth…there is no happiness like mine…I have been eating poetry…” ~ Mark Strand ~Jenuine I have been eating poetry and it tastes like graff art pieced up on a wall barbed wire and train cars neon signs flickering, fading traffic lights and busstops newspaper blankets and dumpster delicacies [...]

~Jenuine they say the desert is a place of death of dying– that it is barren and without life I say look at all the life coursing and pulsing just underneath waiting for the slightest fall of rain to quench and set free such vibrant life a-bloom they say the desert is a place for [...]

~Jenuine I’m so tired of chasing moonbeams ‘cause in the end that’s all it ever seems to be– some captivating, ethereal, yet utterly intangible, thing I long to taste to smell to hear to feel to see to know… I grasp and grasp yet my fingers capture nothing still always aching to touch to hold [...]

~Anuhea The womb is where life begins. As women we are the mighty warriors of life giving creatures. Our womb speaks. Many times we are not aware. We don’t often listen to the powers of its growth and impact on our daily lives. This blog revolves around when I began to listen to my womb [...]

~Jenuine I wonder what it would be like if we unpimped the church if we degilted the goblets and traded velvet for burlap what would it be like if we down-sized the sound system and returned all those flat-screens what if sermons were open mic style where we could learn from each other instead of [...]