by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 27, 2018 | Truthfairy Project
It was a dark and stormy night of the soul under heavy clouds of unknowing. The kind of storm that makes you drop the blinds and hunker down and think about candles in case power lines go down. The kind that makes you coulda-woulda-shoulda yourself about not buying a...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 25, 2016 | Truthfairy Project
I tried to understand his violence toward my mother—her purpled eyes, his paranoia and the neighborhood street lights he’d shot out with his issue rifle over the hood of his Chevy one bad night. His wandering moods ebbed with the flow of Falstaff’s swallowed. Having...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 25, 2016 | abuse survivor, Truthfairy Project
I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day no matter how many years tick by. This date comes again every year but any other time, if you ask me the exact date I finally laid eyes on my father again, I can’t always remember except that it was just after...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 2, 2016 | Dance, Truthfairy Project
Gather Up and Swing Softly in Your Soul Bring your girl-self, bring your woman-self and with her, Bring your joy Bring your sorrow, and your fiery soul Bring your heart, bring your mind Bring what is broken and Divine Bring your tenderness Bring your strength Bring...
