Because I Love

This collection of poems, short stories, and litanies reflect my journey to understand love and the role it plays in our personal lives and in our communities. As I have traveled on a journey of healing, I have learned to seek paths that lead to compassion and love. This has led me to join with others along a similar journey. I have journeyed as a mother seeking to bring love and equality to the LGBTQ+ community and have lobbied for autism inclusion. I have journeyed as a person of faith and joined with global community leaders starting conversations on compassion that will lead us all to healing and peace. I have journeyed as a survivor of domestic abuse, searching for healing and answers along my way. I journey as a listener waiting to hear your story.

This is a time for change in the nation I call home. This is a time for us all to embody love and compassion as we seek answers that will help us rebuild to be a nation known for equality and justice for all. This is a time for us to reach out to build a stronger global community so we can bring peace to our hurting world.

We can be known by our love. We can be bearers of peace. We can embody compassion.