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Archive for July, 2024

Beautiful you…

I am not referring to how smooth your skin is, your hair, the color of your teeth, or the shape of your body.

You are so much (more…)

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It’s all inside…

I felt a deep sense of discontent. There was a hole that nothing seemed to fill. I had literally searched everywhere for some sense of, well, I didn’t even know what I was searching for; I just wanted to feel something other than various degrees of the same misery. Every time I set my sights on a direction, I thought, “THIS is the way!” but I eventually ended up feeling disappointed yet again. It was like they all ended the same way–like sand in my hand.

I searched everywhere, but they all eventually had the same result. There was only one place (more…)

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Step by tiny step…

I don’t know about you, but I can sometimes forget that progress isn’t usually made by sitting around waiting for giant leaps but by being willing to consistently take very small steps.

When we take tiny steps, it can sometimes seem like we aren’t making any progress, and then, (more…)

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A new day.

The more comfortable we become with the unknown, the more life becomes a miraculous adventure. The known is necessarily just a repeat of the past. For something new to enter (the unknown), we have to make room for it.

This is one of the hardest things for us to do, but with practice, we begin to see that we can safely let go of the past (what we know). What we find instead is everything we have ever longed for but never found in the past that we were clinging to.

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Where is it?

There were six kids in ​my​ family​ growing up​–three girls and three boys. I am the youngest girl. ​One of my sisters has always worked towards some goal​ from a very young age. ​Everything centered around the goal. She was miserable in the process and made everyone miserable around her.

I remember thinking that ​it would be better once she achieved the goal. But alas, once that (more…)

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