We Are All So Good at Smiling

by Amber McBride

come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed. —LUCILLE CLIFTON, “won’t you celebrate with me”

Hoodoo is real, witches & Fae people too. Fairy Tales are real, magic is real, but, careful, Whimsy, sometimes your own mind will unroot you.

Ashe Child: A child loved by the supernatural & glittering with magic. In Hoodoo, ashe is the magic in all things.

my hands have not handled the earth in 7 days, which is a different kind of sadness.

I shake my head thinking, We are all so good at smiling— like we invented it.

My point is that a leaf knows it’s important, at all moments of its life even when it is broken. People always forget that a rough day, a bad year— doesn’t equal a bad life.