awareness

I know what it’s like to spend a long time in between. It’s like outgrowing a shell and moving through the world without one until you find the next roomier one to inhabit. There’s something very vulnerable about this in-between space and it can’t be rushed or numbed. I mean, you can try but it […]

I’ve recently been adjusting to a shift in one of my cherished relationships. I kept asking myself how I might make it be more like how it was before, but I eventually realized that was the wrong question. When I shifted my question away from the outcome and toward what I could learn, something eased […]

My mother, the sage, said, “look how the word shoulder is spelled,” and waited (a while) for me to see what she was saying: SHOULD-er. Then she asked me, “are you “should-ing” yourself right now?”.