67: Sorrow and Grief
The willingness to truly see Painter as who she is means seeing myself as I am in that pattern. And to see this truth is to live with remorse and regret, and experience sorrowful grief.
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47: Stuff that Works
Grief, remorse, and regret work on a dimmer switch, not an on-off switch.
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21: A Love Letter to Betrayers – Discomfort (Part 1)
When I spend resources trying to avoid the painful moment I am imagining, I will never know how to respond to the actual experience. Everything becomes a story about a fix to a broken fix to another useless hole. These responses to my discomfort only create a new narrative of pain for myself and others. I avoid living in an impermanent moment out of fear.
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13: More Symbolism
And here I realized is where the story ended. In a little no frill community thrift store outside of Golden, Colorado. A few trinkets added to a hoarder’s paradise.
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61: Being Incognito: Thoughts on Grief, Loss, and Children
I pretend things didn’t happen that did. I confuse resiliency with the appearance of strength and cover with bravado. I pretend the losses don’t hurt.
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54: Lessons from a Black Friday
Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.
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Lessons from a Black Friday: Year Two
Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.
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