Why Focusing on Being Perfect Leads to Failure.
I don’t measure success in terms of what’s perfect in my life. In fact, I don’t measure it anymore. I experience it instead.
You Are Allowed to Be Human and Thrive.
It's all learning, and not all a personal reflection of our value, lovability or capacity to be a good, contributing human in a world.
Your Love Starts Within You and Rises up Within Me.
The beauty of your presence makes me feel things I am so afraid to feel, for your love burns me even as it heals me, searing my scars formed so long ago.
Sung Home: Chapter Fifty Five. {fiction}
I came back later to find the food eaten, and Victorio asleep again. After scanning for the day, I found him in the dining room, just sitting down.
The Difference Between Your Rights and Boundaries.
If you struggle with these rights, chances are you've experienced some kind of trauma... whether you remember it distinctly or not.
I Kept My Heart in San Francisco.
In truth, the San Francisco that’s home to me exists in the wild spaces untouched by the glittering revolutions and callous transformations its undergone.
Finding God When and Where I Least Expected It.
My God doesn’t have a gender and there’s no particular temple I can go to for worship. But that’s because my God is the Universe.
Letting Go Isn’t as Simple as They Make It out to Be.
What I have come to find is that letting go is a process. Two very small words placed closely together… but yet, such big impact.
Treat Your Future Self as Another Person… That You Like.
We can empathize with our future self. We can like them. We can take care of them. It’s a little attitude tweak, but it goes a long way.
The Last Communist I Knew. {poetry}
The last communist I knew was my professor, an Italian from Calabria, who invited us
over for chess. He gulped wine and crawled around his kitchen floor.