“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
-Lao Tzu
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Where have all the exes gone?
As I have looked forward to writing the past few days, it didn’t actually occur to me to write about past love interests and relationships. However, this is where my mind wandered this morning. Not so much to the people, themselves, but to this idea….that they are not currently a part of my life for…
If the sea brings me to it…
(The following was originally written in August 2024, just before a new person entered my life. Reading it now, just over a year later, I am struck by how soon the thing I was seeking here would be realized. It’s a reminder that what you think may become.) Returning from this year’s trip to Spain,…
Everything and nothing…
(The following was originally written over two years ago in the spring of 2023. I share it now with the acceptance that not every post has to feel complete or perfect. Maybe it’s thoughts and words that went nowhere or I didn’t feel fully expressed what I wanted at the time. Or, perhaps I didn’t…
I may never know…
My husband passed away over 14 years ago, yet it is the death of something else around three years ago that still has me in strange territory as I write this. Oddly enough, it isn’t some sort of co-dependent obsession, infatuation, unhealthy pattern, desire or anything of the like that’s brought me here. As far…
The doors that have opened…
The words that follow were written January 2, 2022. They were written, in part, because I didn’t want to forget certain details about an event in my life. They were also to be the beginning of a story……about the endurance of hope and faith, seeing that in another person, letting go, living in the moment,…
The realization of us…
Failure….possibly one of our species’ greatest fears. Knowing that it can lead to the loss and destruction of our self-esteem, sense of worth, status, livelihood and the like, we often tend to avoid it. How do we avoid it? We refrain from taking risks. Maybe we stay in our current job or position because we…
The movement and play…
The impermanence of everything in this world is obvious anywhere one might look, yet we so often believe the unpleasantries of life will continue indefinitely. Why is that? Overall, the human perspective of time is interesting. We live our lives day to day, year to year, often never quite grasping the extent of change that…
Show me what you’ve got…
Not many weeks ago, I found myself writing about the classic Frankenstein film from the 1930s in one of the chapters of the book I’m working on. In this chapter, I express my early empathy for monsters and outsiders, never thinking I would soon resemble a mad scientist’s creation. Yet, today, this is more or…
The most beautiful gift…
Cancer is a scary word. Although skin cancer can be less scary, the word melanoma isn’t something anyone wants to hear. Melanoma is the most life threatening of the skin cancers, spreading to lymph nodes and internal organs in as fast as a few weeks. Yesterday, I found out that I have melanoma….on my neck.…
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