If your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.
CHELSIE DIANEIf your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.
CHELSIE DIANEOne tornado I lived through got the house.
CHELSIE DIANEYou say: you are mourning a man that could not love you. Full stop. Cover the last word. There’s the truth.
CHELSIE DIANEGood morning. The sun is 93 million miles away her light takes 8 minutes to find you each day. You are on purpose.
CHELSIE DIANEMy brother has not spoken to me in years. Something to do with Donald Trump or Jesus Christ or our horrible stepfather.
CHELSIE DIANEWhen I was six I fell on a broken window. Once I realized no one was coming I stopped screaming and pulled the shard from my middle. This is life for some of us. This has been life for me.
CHELSIE DIANEOh the salt water I had to sweat to realize there was an ocean inside of me.
CHELSIE DIANEA twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.
CHELSIE DIANEThe argentinian kisses me on a beach in tulum.
CHELSIE DIANEI want you as a lemon the waiter brings on a tiny white plate. I want him to watch while I squeeze you into my mouth and swallow the rind.
CHELSIE DIANEWhen I reached for what I wanted, they said I left my needs behind. But if all birds need is on the ground why then do they fly?
CHELSIE DIANEI know this won’t always be a good deal for me I make it anyway.
CHELSIE DIANEYou can’t go to a kindergarten teacher after me.
CHELSIE DIANEThe day my children move out is years I can count on two hands I have them half this time years I count on one.
CHELSIE DIANEI found my old diary tonight. A brokenness I had forgotten pen pressured so deep it punctured page. I ran my fingers over my words and there inside ridges black I found a little girl desperate for someone to save her, desperate for the very woman I have become.
CHELSIE DIANEI will not believe It’s less holy to be human. I will not bow my head. I will not close my eyes to god.
CHELSIE DIANE