20 Aug life in the waiting
Emily P Freeman writes, "You aren't moving to figure things out or to catch up to an expectation, but you are moving because you are alive...
Emily P Freeman writes, "You aren't moving to figure things out or to catch up to an expectation, but you are moving because you are alive...
I stood in Washington D.C., waiting in line to board my next bus to Atlanta. I was on the phone with my mom in an obtrusively large cement block home to a fleet of large buses discussing details of my travel when, out of what...
The question inevitably arises after major heartache: "will I ever love again?" There was talk and jokes--okay, mostly jokes--about me falling in love with some beautiful yogi while in Seattle by friends and family before I left. "No way, Jose," I said, "I am definitely not...
Sleep evades me tonight. I don't want to sleep. I have become restless. My mom told me tonight that I have been gone long enough, "it's time to come home," she said. I think she is right, but probably not for the reasons she believes. I...
{Please excuse the size of photos or any aesthetically in pleasing mishaps on the blog as all postings are currently from my phone as Delia, the laptop, is down and out yet again.}I haven't even made it back to Seattle yet--my train just passing Tacoma--and...
All week long I have had LeAnn Rimes, "Because I Can" stuck in my head. She sings,"I'm gonna climb the mountainLook the eagle in the eyeI won't let fear clip my wings and tell me how high I can flyHow could I have ever believedThat...
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first,...
"You are not welcome here. You no longer have space. Your space is being filled with self-love, grace for my story, and new hope for a beautiful future--which you have no part of. Goodbye." I read the words I had written nights before. A letter to...
Herman Melville wrote, “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” This is the posture to which I am currently approaching my life. There are so many emotions that I find myself feeling and facing with...
There is so much to write about and so much that I would like to tell you! But, alas, I just can't tonight. It is sad, really. My brain is overstimulated and crazy active and simultaneously completely exhausted. I came home and began studying...