No five-year plan. No three-year plan. Not even one year. I’m living in the moments, in the pause, in the space between my thoughts and actions. I didn’t expect the holidays to be as hard as they were. It caught me off guard. I was doing so good. So, so good. And then, out of nowhere, the sadness and all…
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Nostalgia and Presence Both Reside Here
If You’re In Grief…
Time does not heal wounds. Your wounds will only begin to heal when you tend to them. If you’re ignoring them and letting them fester, what will time do for that?Be with the wounds.Feel them.Going through the pain is the only way to heal it. If you’re in grief, going within is where you’ll find all of your answers.In your…
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the honest and raw moments
Beauty lies in the honest and raw moments. For two years now, life has been a blur. Nothing in focus or crystal clear. What to do now? Where to go? The next right step? There is no way (ever) to sterilize death. It’s painful, and it’s brutal. Hard doesn’t seem adequate after a loss like this. There’s no other way…
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God (and Joe) Said So!
I’d been handing out “988” cards in the candle booth like Halloween candy, for weeks, and here I was in need of one and empty-handed. I was the only one there when I entered the store- it was early. I was just coming back from my dentist appointment and decided to stop by the thrift store and see if any…
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Noticing
It’s always easy to look back with hindsight and see what we would or would not do differently.
