I No Longer Want to Work Hard to Be Good
Sometimes we wake up in the morning and we just want to rebel against everything we have ever been taught. Other times, we just put our heads down and do whatever we are expected to do. Most people feel trapped in a thousand ways. But somehow the invisibility of this modern-day trap moves us into […]
Share Yourself
The world loses part of its terror when we tell another person about the things that upset us. When we do that our world evolves. It changes into a more habitable form. Consider this: Every time you muster the courage to share your feelings with the right person, you extend the period you feel truly […]
The Stand In
It feels as if all of a sudden, nothing is significant. Aside from the people in my life. When I first started to feel this feeling a few weeks ago, it worried me. This new feeling was destroying my world. It was as if I was no longer me. I stopped caring. Whether I would […]
The Boxing Ring
Some days it’s like your life is inside a boxing ring. You are being thrown around. You can’t get out, or look like you are in pain. Nobody knows what this really feels like. They think you can handle it. But deep down you are hurting. Fantasizing that you are crawling out of the ring. […]
Do Whatever it Takes to Get Through This
“Do whatever you have to, to get through the pain after I am gone.” my husband said to me a few months before he died. “Whatever it takes.” he said. “It doesn’t matter what it is you have to do, if it makes you feel better then do it.” I didn’t always follow his advice […]
Miracles are real
I think magic is real. More real than your table. The chair. Your coffee too. Miracles are real too. Science proves it. Religion talks about it. Sometimes loss takes away our belief in miracles. It tells us that the only real things are the things we can see. Touch. Hear. Everything else must not […]
No More Lies After Loss
‘The Life we live, is the lesson we teach’ my friend Jim Kwik mentioned in one of his writings. I read it just before I was going to sit down and write to you. And it hit me. The life I live. Is the lesson I teach. Thank you Jim, for putting it so […]