Happy Birthday - now a few days late. This beautiful expression of the bittersweet reality you’re walking in made me wish we were friends in real life so I could just come hang out for a couple of hours. I can tell from this that you are the kind of human I want to be, and want to surround myself with. Two things you express here that i’m also leaning into - recently committed to, even thought I know there will be fallout - are “embracing my mediocrity” (an admonition from Cheryl Strayed at a writers conference I attended last weekend) and focusing my choices and investments of time on LOVE. Not guilt, not shame, not duty…LOVE. Thank you.
THank you, Wendy. It really feels like a paradigm shift that is quite possibly generational. I have older friends and they all had changes, but what I am seeing is we are happy to embrace mediocrity -- I am too exhausted to strive. Love - that's the most powerful thing we can do in this life. To love freely and unabashedly. To never let me people leave without telling them we love them.
I met my husband in a chat room in 1998 and my best friends I met all online. Here's to our meeting one day where there is a cozy sofa and a place to sit and be. <3
Happy Birthday!! Beautifully written. That inner experience so so true. Keep exploring as you are and being honest and sharing. It's always remarkable and wonderful to read your words.
Thank you, Doc. I feel the need to unearth and excavate and this winter feels like the right time to really get grounded and uncover more as an act of allowing.
I’m sure it’s bittersweet and may always be. But you’re doing it. You’re living, you’re thinking and wondering and learning and reflecting and sharing it.
And all that love; that’s the good stuff. I hope you have a great day, lots of squishes and plenty of cake!! Cheers to the road ahead. xo
Thank you, Andrea. The squishes were big and the tiny elbows and knees were sharp as they pounced me awake. It was perfect. Harder than I expected this year, but perfect. I had to take some days of quiet as that and the election Tuesday has me on tenterhooks.
Happy Birthday - now a few days late. This beautiful expression of the bittersweet reality you’re walking in made me wish we were friends in real life so I could just come hang out for a couple of hours. I can tell from this that you are the kind of human I want to be, and want to surround myself with. Two things you express here that i’m also leaning into - recently committed to, even thought I know there will be fallout - are “embracing my mediocrity” (an admonition from Cheryl Strayed at a writers conference I attended last weekend) and focusing my choices and investments of time on LOVE. Not guilt, not shame, not duty…LOVE. Thank you.
THank you, Wendy. It really feels like a paradigm shift that is quite possibly generational. I have older friends and they all had changes, but what I am seeing is we are happy to embrace mediocrity -- I am too exhausted to strive. Love - that's the most powerful thing we can do in this life. To love freely and unabashedly. To never let me people leave without telling them we love them.
I met my husband in a chat room in 1998 and my best friends I met all online. Here's to our meeting one day where there is a cozy sofa and a place to sit and be. <3
Happy Birthday Lisa. Giving you a giant hug from far away. I'm sorry for the sadness and grateful for your writing.
Sending all my love, friend. How I miss your face.
Happy birthday, Lisa 💓
Thank you, Corinne. Hope to see you soon.
Happy Birthday!! Beautifully written. That inner experience so so true. Keep exploring as you are and being honest and sharing. It's always remarkable and wonderful to read your words.
Thank you, Doc. I feel the need to unearth and excavate and this winter feels like the right time to really get grounded and uncover more as an act of allowing.
Happy birthday, Lisa! Big hugs to you on this bittersweet day.
Thank you, Katherine. I am truly grateful.
Happy birthday, Lisa.
I’m sure it’s bittersweet and may always be. But you’re doing it. You’re living, you’re thinking and wondering and learning and reflecting and sharing it.
And all that love; that’s the good stuff. I hope you have a great day, lots of squishes and plenty of cake!! Cheers to the road ahead. xo
Thank you, Andrea. The squishes were big and the tiny elbows and knees were sharp as they pounced me awake. It was perfect. Harder than I expected this year, but perfect. I had to take some days of quiet as that and the election Tuesday has me on tenterhooks.