Blog | Gloria Demillo

To choose

I am choosing to be outside breathing cleaner air. I chose gardening because it made me happy. Because it forces me to be present. To be pat

Because I am loved

I am writing tonight in reflection of love. I have often thought that love, in all its forms, was about whether I was worthy of receiving lo

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Why I get up in the morning

We often understand stories that have a beginning, middle, and an end. A coherent trajectory of personal triumph, growth and sacrifice,...

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A new leaf

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands Spathiphyllum or peace lilies are evergreen...

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Overcoming trauma narratives

I'm still working on it. But each day, the sun still rises. Each day, I blur lines between a beginning, middle, and end. Each day I exist. F

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Thank you

I’ve realised I’ve been building a life, just not the one I really wanted for myself. I wanted to be a writer, poet, researcher, teacher, ac

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Birthday cards from home

We have grown accustomed to the distance, the silence forgotten until birthday cards are sent in the mail.

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As if I can't love

Before empathy, there exists imagination. Imagine if I were a person like you, would that anger you?

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