Guest post/mixtape from Jada!

Hello bloggers! My name is Jada, and I write for Minestrone Soup for the Teenage Soul. I am doing a guest post for Tasha, a lovely lady and dear blogger friend of mine. I'm so happy and honored to be guest blogging for her today because she's been a busy lady with school. If you read my blog, I have a music feature every Sunday called, "A Sunday Tune." I also go to so many concerts, and I guess I would consider myself a music junkie. I thought I share a fun little playlist of some of my favorite songs for you all. I promise your ears will be happy!

Ha'i'ole.

food and places and people and cat of late.

here is a poem for you, too.

How does
a part of the world
leave the world?
How does wetness
leave water?
Dont’ try to put out fire
by throwing on more fire!
Don’t wash a wound
with blood.
No matter how fast you run,
your shadow keeps up.
Sometimes it’s in front!
Only full overhead sun
diminishes your shadow.
But that shadow
has been serving you.
What hurts you,
blesses you.
Darkness
is your candle.
Your boundaries
are your quest.
I could explain this,
but it will break
the glass cover
on your heart,
and there’s no fixing that.
You must have
shadow and light source
both.
Listen,
and lay your head
under the tree of awe.
When from that tree
feathers and wings
sprout on you,
be quieter than a dove.
Don’t even open your mouth
for even a coo.


-Shadow and Light by Jelal’uddin Rumi, from The Soul of Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

for some moments, i think i have lost love and i think i had turned cold and frozen. but poems (the closest to the fluttering-heart) teach me forevermore that love should never turn me into someone i wish never to be.


i am soft and melted, always. like icecream.