My Body is Mine. My Life is My Own.
Reflecting on a song by Orla Gartland, how the only way forward is through (not around), and the concept of grief titration.
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Serving up stories about making art to nourish our hungry hearts
by artist Nicole Sylvia Javorsky
- Jul 16
- 3 min
Letting Myself Be a Mosaic
What would it mean to let myself shine?
- Jun 23
- 6 min
This is Living. All of it.
If I keep trying to “catch up,” I will keep feeling like I’m trying to catch up because that’s exactly what I’m doing.
- Jun 23
- 4 min
I Try to Map Out the Pain But There Are No Words
This sculpture is me reflecting on the simultaneous beauty and utter horror of humanity.
- Apr 29
- 5 min
On Quantum Entanglement And Enjoying Existential Puzzles
A perpetually changing, ever shifting magical puzzle that’s the fabric of our universe and allows us to exist even for a little while? Woah!
- Apr 29
- 4 min
Why I Love When I Don't Have to Make Sense
Sometimes, I write in poetry (and sing and paint) because not having to make sense is the only thing that makes any sense to me.
- Apr 29
- 4 min
TBH: Trying to be Honest With and About PTSD
I tell myself that something bad will happen if I’m honest. But it’s not about what might happen. It’s about what already happened.
- Feb 13
- 4 min
A Wildflower Grows From the Cracks In the Sidewalk
I’m trying to accept that there’s no cure for unanswered questions.
- Jan 28
- 5 min
From Infinity
The truth is not an object that can be measured with a ruler. The truth is felt in the body.
- Jan 22
- 5 min
Letting Real Love In
To heal, I’ve had to learn that not everyone wants me to hide my truth and go into survival mode all the time.
- Jan 1
- 5 min
Dreams + Reality = New Reality
Reality is what it is. It sucks sometimes! Yet, how things are is NOT the limit of what’s possible.
- Dec 18, 2023
- 5 min
Secret Little Dreams
Our dreams matter. Collectively, our dreams hold to the keys to a more kind, peaceful, joyful, compassionate, loving humankind.
- Dec 6, 2023
- 6 min
Introducing ... Whispers Among The Trees
You heard whispers among the trees and called out, “Who’s there?”
- Oct 19, 2023
- 5 min
Who Made Halloween?
Why does Halloween exist? Is it because our humanness allows us to find a way to transform our fears into something fun, goofy, beautiful?
- Oct 16, 2023
- 3 min
Open the Book
It’s all real. And, sometimes, just that realness feels enough.
- Sep 18, 2023
- 3 min
My Heart is Like Paper
Such a simple thing, learning that I matter.
- Aug 14, 2023
- 6 min
In The Raw
I see your humanity because I see mine.
- Aug 7, 2023
- 6 min
Complicated Feelings
What is justice?
- Jul 22, 2023
- 2 min
What's Your Refuge?
These are the words I have right now, a swirling, mashed up mix of statements and poetry.
- Jun 22, 2023
- 1 min
Everything Changes
I thank my younger self for holding onto hope, even when she thought she had stopped believing in a better future.
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