It happened in an instant – too short to be measured, too profound to be imagined. In a single moment – too sudden, too prodigious, too spontaneous to be anything but fate – I saw it all. In the blink of an eye I replayed every bit of it. Every time that I’d betrayed myself. […]
There will always be farther to go; but I’m proud of just how far I’ve already come. I’ve stripped away layer after excruciating layer of who I thought I was, what I thought I knew, and what I wanted to believe. I’ve cleared away the rubble and put out the flames, and discovered my soul […]
In this life, my dear, you are going to meet some people who don’t accept you for who you are. Some may try to change or fix you. Others might judge and criticize you. Some people will accept you only until you hit a rough patch, until you make a mistake or struggle with a […]
Life can be a lot like wandering along an unseen path through an unknown wilderness – sometimes we are graced by wildflowers and guided by the stars, and other times we are pricked, scraped, and bruised by thistles, thorns, and other sharp things. Life, it seems, is beautiful but can also be brutal. Difficult as […]
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