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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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This is only the second episode of Lisa Ling’s “Our America” on OWN and just as I suspected, it’s my favorite show on the network. I cannot say enough good things about both of the episodes I’ve seen…the first covering faith healers and the second, transgender lives. All the individuals profiled in this series thus far have remarkable stories and I’m in awe of how they so freely shared their lives and while a lesser journalist might not care enough, Lisa Ling gets MASSIVE kudos from me for giving the stories and experiences as much precious care as these men, women and children deserve.

Michelle, Tan, Landon and D’elle all leave me inspired and changed for the better by having shared their stories but it was little Hailey who got me at my center…at my mother’s heart. This is just a snapshot of the the second episode featuring Hailey but it contains the moment that broke me wide open. As a parent, I cannot stand up and applaud her mother and father enough for accepting and loving their daughter so completely and without condition. They are the parents that I wish ALL children had.

At 4:44, if you have a heart beating beneath your ribcage, you’ll completely understand what moved me.

Someone will see her in all her gorgeous glory, dad…someone will.

  1. pancakes-and-milkshakes reblogged this from ancora-imparo and added:
    Someone, someday… for us all.
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