I used to write like no one was reading ( Read more... )

Feeling much better today.  Friend time two days in a row, plus a new baby in the family helps a lot ( Read more... )

I don't know how to start this exactly, but here's some observations and retelling of some interesting things that have happened to or around me since being in California ( Read more... )

I'm just a squishy ball of emotions ( Read more... )

I am in Los Angeles ( Read more... )

I want to talk about my feelings, but they are complicated and confusing ( Read more... )

I've never once thought that I was perfect or impeccable.

Sometimes my pride gets ahead of me and I feel invincible. Those are the time I've learned, unequivocally, the above statement: I am not perfect.

I've done a lot of mulling over mistakes for the past 10 years or so.  My mistakes.  The ways in which I have disappointed, hurt, and neglected ( Read more... )

Inhabiting my body
Taking up space.

Listening
to the quiet
Inner Voice.

It is so pleased
to be heard.

"Finally,"

It says,
And sighs with relief.

"You are good.

You are valuable.

You are more
than
Enough."

I'm sure I've written of the desert rain before.  How a once parched earth drinks fully of the nourishing life falling from the sky.  How it makes even the cacti bloom. . . How the scent of sage springs into the air, cleansing the air, freeing the energy ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of thinking about radical acceptance ( Read more... )