Micaela Jones

My name is Micaela Jones. I am nothing but skin, blood and bones, But that’s what the world tells me. Deep within myself, I am like a tree That sprouts with leaves of original beauty And branches of love, courage, intelligence and more beauty. I also sprout with twigs of peace & gentleness. I send these twigs out to clean up this world’s mess With a hope that a kind soul receives & uses them wisely. Before I was a lovely tree, I had been given twigs But not like the ones that I sent out. Other trees have let out twigs that had another duty: They had missions to knock me and other trees of my own kind down. I couldn’t grow any further without sending twigs about Doing acts of harmony. And that’s what happened. Frown, I did. Too broken to continue, I was. One day, a wet drop fell on one of my branches. Another followed, then another. Many more followed. It took no longer than five minutes for water to fill the inches. Then it filled the f...

Remember this painting from a little over a year ago? Well, I have an exciting announcement to share with all of you. Just last year, I was paid in royalties by a family/sex therapist who happened to be a friend of my sister's and had asked to use this painting in a conference she was speaking at. I wasn't paid very much, but it felt so good that my artwork was being shared and spread across from one place to another. This experience boosts up my confidence within me as an artist, one of my greatest passions.

What makes us human is that we care… And because we care, we never stop trying. ~Michael O’Hare, aka Commander Jeffrey Sinclair from ‘Babylon 5’ Babylon 5 Last year but not very long ago, I was introduced to a sci-fi series that I am now hooked on. Babylon 5 premiered in 1994 after the pilot film The Gathering took place in 1993, thus beginning a memorable yet challenging adventure into outer space where a space station called Babylon 5 was built and designed to bring together humans & aliens in order to maintain peace & harmony between the races. So far, I have enjoyed most of the episodes that I had seen on Babylon 5 while there are a few that I prefer not watching again because they have meanings or plots I have conflict with. However, I do appreciate each episode teaching important morals and lessons that we all need to learn whether we agree with them or not. Before then, I wasn’t very interested in science fiction like Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, ...

I had dealt with bullying since I was a little girl. Pieces of crumpled-up paper and erasers were thrown at me in grade school during classes. But, the worst things that were thrown at me were the words that were meant to hurt me, degrade me and discourage me. I had been called lots of mean hurtful names that I can remember—‘stupid,’ ‘retard’ and ‘dummy.’ I’d been excluded, ignored and ditched by my peer groups, including those older than me because I wasn’t good enough or ‘normal enough’ in their eyes. Because of my autism, I didn’t fully understand the social behaviors of those around me, including the people who bullied me. When I would see my peers, sometimes they would do something mean to me but also pretend to be nice to me. It was hard for me to tell whether they cared or not. But when I got older and more mature, I started to see things in a different light. It happened in 8th grade when I realized that the people who I thought were my friends never were. The minute I r...