Geneen Roth

The answer to, "How am I going to get through this" is:
You allow yourself to sob.
To heave, 
To feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it.
You sit.
You listen to sorrow. Your own or the one who is causing it.
You get help from your friends.
And you notice
That at the end of every day
You are still alive.
And you notice
When you don't shut yourself down,
Leave your body,
You actually feel more alive.
That feeling anything,
Even grief,
Is differnt from what you thought it would be.
That when you don't leave yourself,
A different life is lived.
One that includes vulnerability,
And tenderness-
And fragility-
And changes the landscape of life as you know it.

cheryl strayed always

I’ll never know, 
and neither will you, 
of the life you don’t choose. 
We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, 
it was important 
and beautiful 
and not ours. 
It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us.  
There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

brian andreas. always.

i was waiting for such a long time, she said
i thought you forgot

it's hard to forget, i said,
when there is such an empty space when you are gone

compartments of need

It’s like we’ve got these cups in our life. 
One for family, and one for friends, and one for work, and one for a love—
and any one of these cups can be so full that it’s literally running over, 
but the part that runneth over doesn’t runneth over into any of the other cups. 
Excess work-juice doesn’t fill up an empty family cup, 
any more than an abundance of friendships can fill up an empty love cup.  
Which is maddening and a little unfair, but probably, just as it should be.


-meg fee

brian andreas

I find myself dreaming
about the you 
who sits there quietly
waiting to come out
when someone is ready to see her.