We are simply seeking connection, and that is why spirituality has to be personal, handcrafted and revisited when some aspects feel outgrown or irrelevant.
The moment you see something with your own eyes and feel injustice with all your senses, you cross an inner border, you know you can’t go back from there.
The war is over or is it? Do I know you as a dirty innocent thing yet? A discarded soft child forgotten by your god? A picture frame made of wilted flowers?
It becomes exciting to plan the exit strategy from life to afterlife. I say this from losing three people to suicide, all of them in their early thirties.
When I first stepped into the county jail, I knew his pain, so I share his message on behalf of all the unknown people behind the inmate statistics data.
These feelings keep our hearts beating. Emotions -- both the good and the bad -- aren’t what we are, but rather the great connector of the human condition.