Positively Prepared for Down Days
Because the best you can you can do for you is leave bread crumbs to lead you back home to those who love you
In 2010, a dear friend and admirer was dying of stage 4 tongue cancer. He would ultimately die just weeks later. Being he knew I studied the religions of the world as my BA, he asked me: What if he was wrong, what if his faith was wrong and reincarnation wasn’t real. I told him…
When we lose someone that is THAT close to us that it hurts like a part of you is being ripped away, it can cause us to freeze in time. A number of friends and family are grieving right now. So let me leave you all with a good bit of advice on this moment…
The greatest decision I ever made has been to change my perspective on relationships. I used to want to be married as if it somehow defined me and proved to the world I was responsible enough to be considered stable and able to be recognized in life as who I am. I thought my value…
Young DFW woman posted about wanting to make sure the guy she was interested in wasn’t a cheater. So she shared his photo with a group of 42k women. What she got, from many members, was pointing out he was wearing a confederate flag with the words “rebel” on it which has become synonymous with…
The true finite resource, the only real resource that has a value that you can never get back, is time.
So take a moment to breathe. Appreciate the air around you. Feel the sun on you. Hold someone important to you close. It can all slip away so easily. Those opportunities gone.
Sometimes life can be difficult. Sometimes it can throw you curveballs that you just don’t know how you can recover from them. But as you experienced some you learn how to recover faster, harder, stronger oh, more efficiently with each curveball in each challenge. But when those curveballs hit those you care about oh, those…
People seem to think this can’t happen, however I think they mistake what it takes to be ever after. Presumably that it means some permanence, that they believe must be forever. But the definition of ever on dictionary.com, that grants insight and wisdom. ever adverb at all times; always: an ever-present danger; He is ever…
Written by cuddle_muffinFriday, 05 July 2013 03:21trigger warning – no graphic depictions, but it is all about rape and rape culture and how many of us end up contributing to it and why. when i think about the statistics we have for rape, especially considering that it’s under-reported, the uncomfortable thought that inevitably comes to…
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My personal goal in life is to make a difference at least once a day in someone’s life, if only a smile. If I can’t do that, my life has no meaning.
