Best of 2018’s Week 34

Nothing can prepare me for walking through the door except walking through it. I won’t even know its a door until I’m through, maybe not even then. All I do know, if there was ever any truth in our hearts about our future, we will find our way back together. And if not? Well, if not, we will find ourselves elsewhere.

132: Nepo’s Elves

If you only see me because of what I’ve written, or because of what others have said, or because of what you think of my betrayal, you don’t really see me.

You never have.

Best of 2018’s Week 33

My passion for C has always left me breathless. It has never wavered. I’ve shown her things about myself I never shared before. I shared things about my self I didn’t know I carried.

Best of 2018’s Week 32

“I have come to realize that sounding my way into the world, to express who I am, must always come first. Since wanting to be thought well of never goes away, I always have to keep the reaction of others at bay long enough for my voice to make it the light…” – Mark Nepo

127: Monkeys in the Middle

I’ve gone to lengths not to put people in the middle of my situation. I don’t want anyone else to carry my water.

126: Grrr…

The pain will never go away. I will only find perspective for the pain. It is a part of me now. To hate the pain is to hate myself; to love myself is to love my pain.

Best of 2018’s Week 31

As time passed, I grew to know many of the people around me better than they knew themselves, but in that process I lost myself. – Brene Brown, Braving the Wilderness

119: And so it goes

“How often we murder parts of ourselves by not letting things advance or come close. How often we let fear rule our emotional lives. How often we kill or chase away everything that moves.” – @MarkNepo

119: And so it goes

117: This and That

C brings the same depth of passion to hate you and resent you as she brought to love you and care for you. You did this to her heart. She didn’t do this to you…but today you both are choosing which wolf to feed.