…that first glimmer of compassion for myself… ~ Miranda O Confident, you think? You judge me respectable? I grin to myself, relieved to have fooled you, pulled it off. I can certainly tell you my talents, my brags, my aptitudes […]
Continue reading »Enough, at Last
I have learned that when the pain of where I am is worse than the fear of where I’m going, I welcome change. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2483-2484). As long as good enough is good enough, I’ll not […]
Continue reading »Lonely, the Duet
My reasons, my thoughts are foreign to you from my seat here beside you these long years. Your dreams, your fears, your longings I’ll never know, for you decline to share. We sit together apart, isolated, strangers bearing life alone. […]
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. ~ John W. Gardner If I think I’m better than you no matter how kindly, despite […]
Continue reading »Eyes Satisfied with Seeing
All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ~ Ecclesiastes 1.8 (ASV) Yeah, yeah. I know. The trees are budding, birds fly in formation, sunsets […]
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