Category: purpose

  • Truth is louder

    Truth is louder

    Doubt won’t let me be great.  I have ideas but doubt says they’re dumb.  Too often the ideas  stay nebulous  and never become  living, breathing entities. You can blame doubt for that.  I walk into a room  full of peers and  question whether I belong, wonder if there’s even something I can offer.  I stick…

  • Pieces of her

    Pieces of her

    She found a piece of herself under the couch last month.  It was dusty and covered in Cheerio crumbs but it definitely belonged to her. It was hard to tell  but she thinks it might be her sense of adventure. Last week she opened a box in the attic  and was shocked to find  her…

  • What hope feels like

    What hope feels like

    The pitch darkness makes her stumble.  It doesn’t matter if her eyes are open or closed –  the light is the same.  She keeps to herself,  keeps herself small so that she doesn’t  end up with bumps and bruises. she shuffles imperceptibly. Her lack of confidence is because she is  swaddled in uncertainty.  Her movement,…