To learn to stay calm in the face of a possible emergency and certainly in the presence of a real one is the work of a lifetime.
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The more we look behind the curtain, the healthier we can be in our expectations of ourselves and the more compassionate we can be with each other.
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A month or so ago, I scheduled an appointment with my primary care doc. I had two items to discuss with him.
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The slightest fissure -- a hairline fracture in a massive piece of rock -- that is the place in a piece of writing where the whole story might break wide open.
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What I want, more than anything, is to feel connected to myself and to others. To find form for what lives in me and yearns for a worldly shape. Stories, for me, and yes, books, are one of those recognizable shapes — a way of literally holding, and offering to others, one’s lived experience — and also of letting it go.
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In the end, it’s a quality of being honest that is liberating. For so long, I wasn’t fully honest. I lied outright about some things, like smoking, and in a more subconscious way about deeper things, things that I didn’t have names for, things that were so big I was afraid to expose them.
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Yet you, on an ordinary day, telling the truth about your life and being willing to get more and more honest and real? That is strong, my friends. And it’s just the beginning.
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