from ash
The more time I spend here, the less I am certain of. Today, these are some of the things I believe:
- our original beloved-ness has the first and last word.
- depths of sorrow are in direct correlation to capacity for joy.
- analog is almost always better than digital, especially in relationships.
- real and imperfect is better than retouched.
- loving myself is the instruction sheet for loving others.
- the public library is one of the happiest places on earth.
- many hands make light work. shared stories make the road brighter.
- pain is the birthplace of transcendence.
- Black lives matter, I as a white woman with a Black son have so much work to do, and all of us born with privilege are called to work for justice and mercy for the oppressed.
- I need real, tangible humans in my life in order to be the most vital hope-filled being I can.
- the most important person is the one standing right in front of me (this applies to my children, my lover, the grocery check-out-bagger, and the woman reflected back at me in the mirror).
- Ram Dass is right; We are all just walking each other home.
- We are loved beyond anything we could comprehend and the Mysterious Tremendum et Fascinans is always speaking the words of a tender, faithful mother, “you are loved.”
- our original beloved-ness has the first and last word.