Per Wikipedia, safety is the state of being “safe,” the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be considered non-desirable. Those are a lot of potentially non-safe things. No wonder people [...]
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ICK… …how it feels when they tell you “you can’t” or “you shouldn’t.” …how you feel when you know the person you least want to see is right in front of you. …another word for shame. …another word for disrespect. …another word for the thing you feel when you are shot down yet again. ……when [...]
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I remember the feeling of walking on eggshells. I remember wondering what I did wrong or when I would next do something wrong. I remember being scared that this would be my life forever. I remember feeling constantly on edge. I remember being disrespected. I remember being yelled at. Sneered at. Verbally attacked. I remember [...]
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Are you happy? Do you think about what happy means for you? About whether you are happy? If not, do you think about what needs to change for you to feel happy? If yes, is that your way? Are you a happy person? I wonder what happy means. Whether there is a threshold – above [...]
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“Being in the gap can be disorienting and even scary.” No-thingness. I have picked this card from my Zen Tarot deck twice in about one week. Twice out of 80-something cards. “Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities lie ahead.” No-thingness. “But it was [...]
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Last night, I met a friend for dinner. She told me she thought about cancelling beforehand because she’d been such a recluse lately, but decided not to because she thought I’d be upset if she did. (I would have understood.) Recluse. Alone. Solitary. We talked about our tendencies to be more alone than not. We [...]
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Today, I am wearing a green dress. It is bright green and loud. It feels so lovely against my skin and flows so beautifully with every step I take. I loved this dress the moment I saw it on the rack in the store. I couldn’t decide between sizes, but when I saw that it [...]
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I wonder what would happen if we stopped expecting. If we allowed ourselves to stay in the moment and think not about before or next. But about Now. Expectations lead to disappointment.To judgement. To perfectionism. To all the things I know I am working on getting away from. Now is about flow and being open [...]
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When I see that my bf or my bff has poked me on Facebook. When I have completed my grocery shopping before 9am. Listening and re-listening to my 5-year-old niece’s voicemails to me. Florida sunrises and sunsets. Florida winters. Scrolling through the ridiculous amounts of books on my kindle and looking at the cover picture [...]
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This morning, in search of a profound message for my day, I picked one of my magical Zen Tarot cards at random. Compromise. I groaned a little inside. I could already predict what the card’s explanation would tell me: Compromise is good, necessary, blah blah blah. I get it. But, not so fast. I’m not [...]
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