It is ok if some things that are meant to be easy, feel hard to do.  Don’t compare yourself to others.   If something feels hard, it is hard.  Someone else’s experience with it, can’t change yours.  This goes for everything.  Including grief.  Including Christmas.  The Holiday Season makes some people happy and others sad.  Hearing Christmas Carols can make one man weep and another cheer. …

I don’t know how it comes back, but it does.  It comes knocking on your door.  Even though you can barely notice it at first.  I am talking about the feeling of wanting to live again.  I know you never thought it would come back.  You didn’t believe it could find you.  But it did.  It found you crying in front of the TV.  And…

I have been more emotional lately.  I know you have too.  There is something in the air. Isn’t there?  Something ungraspable.  Unknowable.  Quite unspoken.  Even though we do speak of it.  I see it in people’s eyes.  Heaviness sitting inside emptiness. How do we even begin to understand it?   A burden like no other.  It is as if it wasn’t part of the pain education…

I am writing to you late on Thanksgiving evening, and I can’t stop thinking of you.  I want to know about your day.  Were you on your own?  Did you have to cook a meal for one?  I tried to guess the number of people who were not able to be with their families, and I can’t decide if it is a million, two million,…

Today, I was reminded of the joy of a new adventure.  The unknown path ahead.  The fork in the road.  Oh I felt young again.  I rejoiced.  I was nauseous just before it.  My brain casting a spell of darkness.  And yet, when I leaped inside the unknown I felt elation.  The kind I had forgotten about.  The kind only reserved for the years before. …

Lately the whole world has been suffering a lot more than usual.  So today I decided to share with you my very own hard won truths that are helping me through this difficult time.  Of course it doesn’t mean that I am not impacted by current events, it just means that I am able to recover a little easier.  Here they are.   I BELIEVE…