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back in my body
when i am on the brink of a panic attack, when that familiar feeling begins to build in my body, my therapist tells me to visualize a...
Aja Sun Houlton
May 23
so many ways of saying goodbye
flew to Illinois for my grandmother's memorial, just one year after my grandfather's service. they had been married 74 years. they say...
Aja Sun Houlton
Mar 12
you, me, our cat & a slow life
in my dreams, you are a tree and i am a tree, and we send each other secret messages through our root system. deeply connected for...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 10, 2024
wish i could write about something other than death
i get in the car to go home and collapse. it rains and it feels like the world is crying with me too. we sit down to eat dinner at 9:00...
Aja Sun Houlton
Mar 4, 2024
seven
it's the way we idolize things only after they're gone, the way we grieve deeper than we love. childhood ends slowly, and then all at...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jun 18, 2022
continuum
the morning light wraps us in tenderness, its dusty warmth filling the room. i squint out the window and watch the street cat circle the...
Aja Sun Houlton
Aug 22, 2021
the ache of becoming
we pull into a gravel parking lot in the middle of Tennessee and watch the sunset. everything a hazy glow. i hear the universe sigh. the...
Aja Sun Houlton
May 27, 2021
Sundreams
i open my eyes and tenderness rushes in. in the early glow of the morning i lay in your bed with my hair sprawled out and watch the...
Aja Sun Houlton
Apr 20, 2021
Freefalling
I look up and suddenly it's winter. It's getting dark at 4:30 pm and the Christmas lights are twinkling in the square and I'm filled with...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 31, 2020
Someday I'll Tell You About December
I. How do I make sense of all this? Is it strange that I can only write about it now that it's over? II. We spent most of our nights...
Aja Sun Houlton
Dec 29, 2020
Fool's Gold
I've got it figured out: Love. Love is the train that’s traveling east when I’m headed west and I can feel it roar in the steel railings...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 19, 2020
Metamorphosis
1. I feel like an open wound. Does that mean I still need to heal? 2. I have all this love and nowhere to put it. 3. I've read my...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 19, 2020
Wild, Wonderful Things
It's November 4th again. Except this time, I'm 21. And I'm searching for something profound to say — something important — but there's...
Aja Sun Houlton
Nov 5, 2020
A Holy Kind of Happiness
Everything is changing and I am too. The weather is getting colder and this is the part that I dread — except this year, I don't. This...
Aja Sun Houlton
Oct 8, 2020
Yellow
The sunset tonight made me think of you. It was hazy and soft. It's September now, and you're off producing another song about an...
Aja Sun Houlton
Sep 17, 2020
All The Things We Felt
We were magic and everybody else was just witness to it... And when the world felt like a blurry, spinning, marvelous mess, we believed...
Aja Sun Houlton
Sep 3, 2020
Microcosms
The universe is expanding— my eyes are wide open and I'm taking all of this in. August was hard. I started a new job and I saw two people...
Aja Sun Houlton
Aug 30, 2020
A Mouthful of Maybes
You fall asleep with my hands in your hair and you look like a little kid — all tired and messy and vulnerable. I memorize the way I feel...
Aja Sun Houlton
Jul 14, 2020
In an Alternate Universe Where We Are Together
In an alternate universe where we are together, I sit in the passenger seat of your car and you tell me stories about your childhood. I...
Aja Sun Houlton
May 20, 2020
Sleepwalking
The world is ending and my house is falling apart and I'm standing six feet from the people that I love. And all I can think about is the...
Aja Sun Houlton
May 3, 2020
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