We look at the path we’ve traveled, and we see it littered with the detritus of our mistakes and missteps. But under all that junk? Something new is growing.
Something amazing.
Something unlike you have dared to imagine.
Something akin to a miracle.
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The Easy Friend No More
Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying it’s hard to be my friend, but instead, I have (some would argue FINALLY) realized I matter and my heart matters. Being the easy friend often made me sad, lonely, and, quite frankly, questioning whether I really had the friendships I thought I did. You know the ones I’m talking about: the friendships that matter–that come from a place of risk and trust and vulnerability that cannot happen in a vaccuum or in isolation.
A Word to Define a Year
But, as I thought about 2019 and what I want the next 12 months to look like, one word kept jumping to mind. It wasn’t a word that I at first thought would be challenging. It wasn’t a word that needed to be put out into the universe. But, the more I thought about other words, “harder” words, the more I realized the right word was already there:
Can we stop with the shame game already?
Have you ever really wanted to write a blog, started it a dozen times, and then not finished? Well, that is how this one has been. It’s something I want to write, but it’s been hard. Hard because there are some emotions involved. Hard because, with time and distance, it seems silly? That’s this post….
S672 Book Review: Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
Title: Quiet Power: The Secret Strength of Introverts Author: Susan Cain (with Gregory Mone and Erica Moroz) Illustrator: Grant Snider Publication Info: Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers Group (2016) Suggested Age Range: Grades 5 and up Summary: Susan Cain’s remarkable best-seller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Won’t Stop Talking, changed…
My Boots Are Heavy Today
When my friend Elizabeth is having a rough day, or when life just generally feels like it’s too much, she will say her boots feel heavy. It’s a reference from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and it makes total sense. Sometimes life feels like too much – so much, in fact, that just walking through…
When Anxiety Attacks, Part 1
Several years ago, we found a tick on the dog. It was gross and disgusting. Instead of having a normal, rational reaction to said parasite (shuddering, disgust, anger, any number of rational emotions), I remember what I did vividly. I sat in the middle of my living room floor and had a full-blown panic attack….