by Kelly Childress | Jul 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Do you ever feel a monster inside of you? I do, and it makes me feel at odds with myself, caught in a struggle – when to fight, when to love? We are in a shitstorm. Our country’s leaders are calling for the worst aspects of humanity to rise up. To name a few,...
by Kelly Childress | Jun 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
I remember once when I was a child, Mom took us to shop at Lloyd Center – a large shopping center in NE Portland. We were walking along and, not paying attention, I got separated from her. I turned and she was gone. I remember the panic that filled me, the desperation...
by Kelly Childress | Apr 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
At some tender point in our lives, many of us were put in a box, marked “unlovable,” and without anyone or anything to help us get out, we set up shop. It became familiar, we got comfortable, we bought some furniture, arranged the space to make it nice and cozy, kept...
by Kelly Childress | Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week I read that the last, male, white rhino on planet Earth, had died. This means white rhinos are, barring a miracle, about to be wiped off the planet. I felt such pain in my heart as I allowed the gravity of this to sink in. We move so quickly these days,...
