Dear former husband, Thank you. You loved me all you could, with all you had. Thank you. You and I made three of the most incredible humans. (inside and out) We did that. We did a lot while we were together. We talked SO much. We fought SO hard. We tried and tried and tried. … More To the ONLY man I ever loved…
“Wonder isn’t about finding answers; it’s about becoming more comfortable with questions.” ― Leigh Ann Henion “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne Language may be the most fascinating … More Wondering and Wandering
“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can … More Single Lady
“Cause we’re adventurers, and heartbreaks our map. A final destination, we lack. And we’ve stopped asking directions to place they’ve never been. And to be loved, we need to be known. We’ll finally find our way back home. And through the joy and pain that our lives bring… we can do hard things.” —Tish Melton … More Hard Things
“Humans do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts … More My Kinsey Scale
“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal … More Cult(s) and “strong” words
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
img_2948 “This… is gonna suck.” I thought to myself while I poured out my favorite wine into the kitchen sink. Alone. With no one to tell me I “ought to,” and no one to judge if I had just decided to“finish it off” instead. I took this video last year for the sole purpose of … More Sober
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 