“It is a Phenomenal Program”

by | Apr 30, 2020 | Media Coverage, News

“…it is a phenomenal program.” Why, they’re talking about us! The best testament to the power and positive impact of our work is when our program partners praise us. It makes our day. Here, Friends of Guest House executive director Kari Galloway mentions Heard’s work as part of how they are keeping their residents safe and sane in a feature posted in the Alexandria Gazette Packet.  Thank you Kari! You are the best and we love working with you!

For Me?

by | Apr 18, 2020 | Poetry

FOR ME?          

Ayla Laundry, April 16, 2020, Friends of Guest House

I said to them it is a complicated excerpt ,

but is it my story?

A continued story with no precise end or beginning .

Is it for them?

Or is it for me?

At Bay..

by | Apr 18, 2020 | Poetry

AT BAY..

Contessia Bosserman, April 16, 2020, Friends of Guest House

I speak to my pain,
how long can you keep the great sadness at bay?
Pain answers, until you can overcome it.
i whisper to my curiosity,
how have the waves not drug you under?
Curiosity simply answers hope.
Then i ask will there be a pocket of air underneath the pressure of the sea?
Light is above the water and you must reach for it.

We Will

by | Apr 17, 2020 | Poetry

WE WILL

Candace Leber, April 16, 2020, Friends of Guest House

And I said to her:  Will you see how wonderful you are?

And she said:         Will you show me?

And I Said to her:    Will you forgive yourself?

And she said:   Will I have suffered enough?

And I said to us:       Will we ever love ourselves?

And we said:  Will we help each other?

Finding Yourself

by | Apr 16, 2020 | Poetry

“And i said to her, ‘Why am I different?’ She said to me, ‘For you were made to stand out.'” Yes, Chazcie, yes!

 

Finding Yourself

 

By Chazcie Heflin, Friends of Guest House, April 16, 2020

 

Finding yourself

 

And I said to her

 

Who am i

 

And she said

 

You are who you think you are

 

And i said to her

 

Why am i different

 

She said to me

 

For you were made to stand out

 

And i said to her

 

Let go of me i want to be free

 

and she said you’ve been free,

 

you blocked yourself from yourself