Self Love

 Today I crawled out from under the weight of your bad opinion and for the first time in a long time I felt free. 

Rise Up

Rise Up by Andra Day

The scarier the world gets the more we want to isolate and protect ourselves from it by any means we can.  We surrourd ourselves with like minded people to feel safe. We make rules that define how we should be together, define our boundaries, tightening our security, and in so doing we create a world of us and them. 

The scarier the world gets the more polarized we become, but now more than ever we have to resist the self protective urge to seperate ourselves from the struggle of our fellow human beings. We are interconnected, interdependent; it is our struggle too, and without each other we are powerless. We cannot give in to the feeling that we can't make a difference because that hoplessness will be the end of us all.

October

If October was a person it would be a a woman in her prime, all decked out in burgundy  and gold, not hiding her age as if it is something to be ashamed of, but recognizing the beauty that comes from living, how laughter and worry have etched their tell tale lines on her face, how the sparkle in her eyes still exists but is tempered and made three dimensional  by the depth of wisdom, reminding us that everything is finite and yet infinite at the same time.