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Category: Starting Over

  • How Lucky

    Lately, I’ve been doing the work,the healing, the feeling,the isolating kind of workwhere your emotions overflowand you almost hide from them,but then you don’t. It’s been a journey and a dance,an eye-opening gift,and a place that’s brought me to my knees. And still,I have to remind myself sometimesthat the fun, wild, untamed parts of mestill…

  • Softness Grew Here: A Mirror in the Grass

    This morning, I saw the tiniest baby bunny on my front lawn..still, soft, and slow, just nibbling grass like the whole world was safe.And I knew it was a sign. Earlier this week, I found two baby birds that had passed.And now… this.This living thing.This soft, wild thing.This mirror of me. Because I know nothing…

  • The Truth of the In-Between

    Leaving, but not yet gone.Knowing, but not quite living it.Shedding the old,but not fully stepped into the new. A space where you remember the achemore than the reason you stayed.Where clarity whispers louder than habit,and yet… you linger. A quiet stretch of stillness,not quite the end,not yet the beginning.Just a soft pausebetween who wasand who…

  • Gone Fishing.. Together

    “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Love is a little like this metaphor. Have you learned to fish, or have you relied on being fed by those you choose to love? It seems like an obvious truth,…

  • Hey Dad

    I miss you in all the little ways—like when the grass gets too tall,or I forget to check the oil,or the guy at Home Depot asks,“You got everything you need?” You’d probably look at me and say,“Well, I guess you’re a real grown-up now, huh?You got it all figured out?” I’d roll my eyes and…