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I believe in simplicity. I believe in feelings and family, friendship and fidelity, forgiveness and fortitude. I believe in motherhood and make believe. I believe in concocting and consuming colorful cocktails and fussing over and feasting on fabulous food. I believe in living out loud. I believe in laughing until your face hurts and loving until your heart breaks. I believe in behaving boldly and when warranted, badly, taking bubble baths and being barefoot. I believe in poetry, puppies and playing in the park. I believe in scheduled working on weekdays and sleeping in on Sundays. I believe in dancing in the rain and digging in the dirt. I believe in honest expression and the golden rule. I believe in nature and naps and that naïveté is sometimes necessary. I believe in goodness and gratitude and grace. I believe in unity and the power of the universe. I believe in being authentically awesome. I believe in being better today than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow. I believe in challenges and change and growing pains. I believe in the inherent worth of every creature on this planet. I believe in honoring the individual journeys and paths of people whether I understand them or not. I believe in letting people live their truth and trusting that it’s right for them. I believe in lifting up and letting go. I believe that death is just as sacred an experience as birth and that it is never, ever an end.

Mostly, I just believe that I’m never going to stop learning what it is I believe.


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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

—

Henry Ward Beecher

I’d love to add forget to my forgive but I can’t do that if every time the wind blows it brings with it the familiar ache of what was left behind…the memory of the tornado that ripped my world apart.

Those who seek forgiveness only to assuage their shame deserve none. It’s entirely selfish and detestable.

“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”

—Hermann Hesse

“Life is rarely about what happened; it’s mostly about what we think happened.”

—Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

If I thought she was genuinely sorry for the lies she told & the pain she caused & not just calling to make herself feel better because it was the day of the Memorial, I wouldn’t have hung up after she plead her case.

There is no excuse for what was done so to make them insults me.

You cannot “save” one soul at the expense of another; life does not work that way.

The tenderness of & goodness in my heart deserved better treatment and while it now has reinforced steel for its walls, it’s STILL a good and loving heart and beats quite well thank you very much.

I deserved better than to be made a scapegoat and turned upon.

Using someone’s inherent paranoia against them and calling it “for their own good” is the definition of evil. Pure and simple. 

I don’t need to hear confessions or apologies or reasons. What’s done is done and cannot be taken back, altered or repaired…

And my wounds are but scars now.

“Don’t look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.”

—Henry Miller

“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.”

—

Kurt Vonnegut

Love and honor your body. Change it if you must but love it all the same.

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Patty Griffin

Top Of The World
Impossible Dream

Patty Griffin - “Top of the World”

I wished I was stronger
I wished I was smarter
I wished I loved Jesus,
The way my wife does
I wished it’d been easier
Instead of any longer
I wished I could’ve stood
Where you would’ve been proud
But that won’t happen now,
That won’t happen now.

There’s a whole lot of singing
That’s never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word
Somehow…
And I think I broke the wings
Off that little songbird
She’s never gonna fly
To the top of the world now.
To the top of the world…
I don’t have to answer
Any of these questions.
Don’t have no God to
Teach me no lessons.
I come home in the evening
And sit in my chair
One night they called me for supper
But I never got up
I stayed right there
In my chair

There’s a whole lot of singing
That’s never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word
Somehow…
And I think I broke the wings
Off that little songbird
She’s never gonna fly
To the top of the world now
To the top of the world…

I wish I’d have known you
I wish I’d have shown you
All of the things I
Was on the inside
But I pretend to be sleeping
When you come in in the morning
To whisper goodbye
And go to work in the rain
Now, I don’t know why
I don’t know why

Cause everyone’s singing
We just want to be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word
Somehow
And I wanna grab a hold
Of that little songbird
Take her on a ride
To the top of the world right now
To the top of the world

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