I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that’s what breaking means. To be whole.
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY

Break Broken Mean
Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY

Despair Emotion Mean
I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY

Desperate Heartache Laughter Vulnerability
Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY

Alex Cake Death Life
I’ve been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he’s made more of me, too.
BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY

Baby Easy Order
How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
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Anyone Become Mystery

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