It’s time to shed the expectations that the world puts on you and make your own. It’s time to disconnect from toxic people that continually find fault with who you are. It’s time to pull away from relationships where you feel like you’re in a constant battle to be in that person’s favor. It’s time…
Catalog
Marisa Donnelly
Marisa Donnelly graduated Summa Cum Laude from Waldorf University in May 2015 with a B.S. in Secondary English Education, a B.A. in English, and a B.A. in Creative Writing with endorsements in Secondary Reading and Coaching. She is a Midwest-born, West Coast-based writer, poet, essayist and licensed teacher working as a full-time Staff Writer and Editor/Producer for Thought & Expression Co.
Please, take me anywhere, and I’ll go. I’ll pack my bags, I’ll split the cost, I’ll make the plans and promise to keep you smiling, even when we’re tired. I’ll take the pictures; I’ll kiss you deeply; I’ll write our memories to life so we never forget. I’ll willingly wander as long as I’m wandering…
I want to hold your hand and walk with you through every beautiful country, take a picture with you in every breathtaking forest, kiss you under the stars in this sky that’s the same no matter where we end up, but feels so different, so magical in an uncharted place. I want to run wild with you,…
Let’s follow wherever our feet long to wander. Let’s jump on trains and buy one-way airplane tickets. Let’s call up old friends and visit them across the country. Let’s get in the car and drive until our eyes are heavy. Let’s go, my love, let’s go.
I want to go places with you, explore worlds with you, get lost with you.
I want to travel to the ends of the earth with you, walk and run and explore with a dizziness that makes us fall into our beds at the end of the night, so exhausted and so in love.
I don’t know where we will go, or what journeys we will take. But I hope we take them together, hand in hand.
I hope that the world lays out a road for us to follow. That it’s a messy road, a difficult road, but a road filled with love and laughter. I hope we get lost and find ourselves in each other’s arms.
I want your time and your touch, your adventurous side, your longing to experience. I just want you, in all your forms, to discover what’s out there. Discover it with me.
I want to see the world and soak its wonder into our pores. I want to feel your hand in mine as we walk through forests, or worn gravel roads, or museum hallways. I want our eyes to light up as we study the bones of a dinosaur, or for us to laugh uncontrollably as we splash down waterslides.
Let’s not worry about the words tomorrow will write on our bodies. And instead, decide to turn off all navigation, all fears, all thinking, and head forward into the dizziness, one step at a time.
Let’s get lost together. Throw our maps out the window and just go. We’ll trade stories of our histories and laugh at our scars. We’ll stop fighting the universe and let it bring what it must, let it bring us together. Let’s stop trying to plan where the next days, weeks, months, years will take us.…
Let’s hold hands and jump, take on this crazy world together. Let’s drive with no destination. Let’s soak in the lessons of the world and not worry so much what everything is trying to teach us, but how it makes us feel.
You desperately want to be understood.
You keep a journal.
You value vulnerability over anything else.
You are an independent woman. A woman with a strong heart and passionate soul. You cannot let go of that part of you, the part that decides for herself, finds strength in her ability to stand alone. Yet you cannot be afraid to love. You cannot be afraid to embrace that ridiculously emotional side of…
You let him in. You feel weak, dependent, breakable. You have become the woman that let a man in, who trusted him, who can easily be crushed by the same hands that touch her. So you swing to the other side. You pull away. You spend time alone, just recharging, remembering that sense of self. Letting…