loving not fixing
I have discovered that loving people and fixing them are two very different things.
I am so happy to have had this realization.
I have discovered that loving people and fixing them are two very different things.
I am so happy to have had this realization.
As a final farewell to each man I have loved and lost–whether by your deceit or mine, your projection or mine, your fears or mine–I offer this poem by Lord Byron. Today, I choose love and truth. Today, I choose joy. WHEN WE TWO PARTED When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted…
I got this in my inbox today from The Shift Network. This is the world I want to live in.
I’m doing a week of reading deprivation (including e-mail!) as part of the Artist’s Way process. It’s been amazingly good for my creativity and I am learning A LOT about how I spend my time and why. I’ve been doing more of the following life-affirming things: resting playing dancing dreaming writing painting walking creating Here’s…
The Sacrifice by Rites of Spring on Grooveshark βIt is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.β ~Rainier Marie Rilke It is stormy today on this first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. For me, it is the perfect texture for this day. Spring can be a time…
I realize in viewing it that she’s less the woman in the film specifically and more a composite of many women I’ve met in homeless and domestic violence shelters…
“forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ~Mark Twain This is a journal entry that was transmutated from self-loathing to self-love. I am finding that forgiveness of myself and others is the biggest change agent for moving from the constricted, dark space of loathing to the open,…