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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Being honest with ourselves means letting go of some things. Sometimes these are entire identities. Other times, they may be jobs or relationships, or beliefs or ways of relating.
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The truth is somewhere else, as usual. And that somewhere else is not far away at all but rather right here. It is here in the tapping of keys, in the release of words.
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When I feel stress today, I will pause and ask myself: Is it an emergency? I am making this more stressful and complicated than it really is? What is the next step?
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You can cover the past / but until you speak the truth / you will never heal
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I want to live the stories, not just remember them.
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Isn't it funny how the thing we were so scared of can become our new normal, and then at some point, we will once again feel the winds changing and have to calmly reach for some kind of inner compass?
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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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If I don't keep practicing letting this be enough, nothing will ever be enough.
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9. Get drowsy and take a nap, since you didn't sleep well last night. This logic adds up.
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I knew it was coming, like a low rumble in the distance before a storm.
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Action, emotion, intellect, spirit. To live predominantly in only one of these worlds is to miss so much information.
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You are not required to learn form these experiences, but your world will be richer and your relationships stronger if you do. And there is no avoiding them, lest we live in a fragile, entitled state of needing everything to go our way.
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They’d likely not vacation together again, for more reasons than the woman would get into now. Needless to say, a day was just right. They stopped for ice cream before returning home, letting the summer day run long. She remembered how she used to have such a hard time saying goodbye, letting go. She still did.
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A deep breath. The light changing so subtly and gradually, it’s almost impossible to discern. But soon enough, it will be dark outside. We’ll sleep once more, than start all over again.
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