Mandy Ricks

Tag: wisdom

  • Facades

    I’d rather see your battle scars. Your lines, wrinkles, and wounds, Than you facade. -Mandy Ricks

  • A Quiet Place

    I am looking for a lovely quiet place where I can listen to the silence. -Mandy Ricks

  • Writing

    Writing can be hard for me, but I feel compelled to continue. To find thoughts that draw pictures and sentences that explain thoughts. To offer intrigue, comfort, and hope. To trigger memories. Maybe sometimes sadness and traumas. Because all of these make up and include life. Astounding and compelling life. The same life that we give thanks for. -Mandy Ricks

  • Graceful harmony

    Evening rolls in, softly, gently, a soothing reprieve.

    And as the leaves turn and drop with graceful harmony so does my need to please.

    -Mandy Ricks

  • Set Free

    Your place in my life has finally set me free to stop hating.

    -Mandy Ricks

  • Sun and Rain

    Is it the rain that makes me sad or is it the ache of emptiness that once was you?

    Perhaps I just need to wait for the sun to return and warm my thoughts.

    -Mandy Ricks

  • Wild

    All of us have a piece of wild that lives in our soul.

    Keep it.

    Treasure it.

    Love it.

    Because it will protect you during war.

    -Mandy Ricks

  • People pleasing

    I have spent too many years with my heart and legs open, hoping to find love, and to please, but only finding hypocrisy. -Mandy Ricks

  • Perfection

    Perfection is the enemy of done.

  • Summer is here

    It’s here: Summer. With it’s hot days, hotter nights, cold drinks, and broken promises. Be careful out there. -Mandy Ricks

    This is an updated post from May of 2023.

  • The Storm

    Embrace the storm, it brings about change and transformation. -Mandy Ricks

  • To shine

    You too have been brought into this world to be filled with light and to shine. -Mandy Ricks