“Feelings are not a binary experience. Grief is not relative. Pain is not contingent. That means you get to feel gratitude and also heartache. You get to enjoy some parts of life while war rages on, and also be angry at other parts. You get to be around people you love all day and also miss the people you are not with. You get to be okay one day and not okay the next. You get to mix stripes with florals. You get to have a full range of seemingly contradictory feelings and experiences, and so do others. May we grant ourselves and each other that breadth now and always.” –Lisa Congdon
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[week 4/52 review] unmoved
[little me + a journal from my son + card from K]
So, Braveheart, today is the first day of a new trip around the sun for me … and Week 4/52 was the ideal launching pad for celebrating my wild and precious life! 🎉🎉🎉
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Continue reading “black & white (doing what i want)”Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it’s particularly hard for women. We are, after all, the gender onto which a giant Here-to-Serve button has been eternally pinned.
Cheryl Strayed