Pen As I Sit Here At 3:21 AM, I Write With A Dose Of Wisdom Mixed With Hypocrisy Sometimes a bit of rest is all you need. Rest is more than sitting down. It is also found in the right kind of exertion. Rest means ceasing to engage with things that steal your energy, clutter your thoughts, or scream for attention. In ancient Hebrew, one word for rest (nuach) also means to abandon, to …
— A Poem About Retaining Oneself —
“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” ― Anais Nin
Your strength is in your delicacy. You are delicate like a flower. I hold you up through every storm because you are delicate. I love your beauty, your softness, your texture and scent. I love your intimate heart, your fragile thoughts, your tenderness. I love your slender petals, your spring-fresh stem. I value and treasure your wisps–your lines–your flair and style–your spunk. You continue to be delicately amazing in your …
Crushed /kruSHt/ – 1. deformed, pulverized, or forced inwards by compression. 2. feeling overwhelmingly disappointed or embarrassed I am being crushed bit by bit, not by world situations, pandemics, political pressures, or financial worries, but by the weight of all the lives I’m not living. Assumptions stir faith. I am assumed I’d be farther along on the journey of being me. I feel stifled by responsibilities and by the things I’ve …
The older I get, the more I’m convinced that the reason we work isn’t to get ahead, but rather, to keep from falling behind. Take today for instance. I worked a steady pace, cleaning the house, washing, folding, and putting away laundry, cooking and doing dishes, vacuuming, hanging up coats, ironing work clothes for tomorrow, answering emails that are miserably stacking up, and so on. Not once did I accomplish …