Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
“You peer into my life to find a lingering past, but I tell you it was sunken thousand fathoms deep and weighted down with my dead self. You look into my breast to find that old, old open wound, but I tell you I seared it with my hot tears and only the cicatrix is there. You look into my eyes to read that oft-told … Continue reading Pushing Through
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, … Continue reading Your Forever Friend
“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Social media, for many, might be one such thing. I heard it described this way: Twitter ~ I’m eating a donut Facebook ~ I like donuts Foursquare ~ This is where I eat donuts Instagram ~ Here’s a picture of my donut YouTube ~ Here I am, eating a donut LinkedIn ~ My … Continue reading The Sacred Space Between Your Ears
”I suggest to you that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. I suggest to you, furthermore, that when you feel that you could almost have written the book yourself — that’s the moment when it’s influencing you.” ~ E.M. Forster, I stumbled … Continue reading A Road Less Traveled
“The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” ~ Galileo Galilei For those who’ve never seen Seattle on a clear, sunny day, it’s really quite something. Mountains frame the city, Olympics to the west and Cascades to the east. Mt. Rainer looms … Continue reading Sunny Day Spirits