Yes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
SCHUYLERWe’ve never seen what a happy life could look like if we chose to spend it by ourselves – sharing our beautiful lives with friends, family members, the occasional crush, and lounging out in that quiet space alone as if an idyllic sunned beach.
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How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
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There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
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I’m thinking about how early the spring flower buds rise up from the grass; just barely on winter’s heels. How uncomfortable, how cold the soil must be, still half-frosted, when the roots start to take shape.
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We’ve never seen what a happy life could look like if we chose to spend it by ourselves – sharing our beautiful lives with friends, family members, the occasional crush, and lounging out in that quiet space alone as if an idyllic sunned beach.
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The world will be loud again. I’ll notice the loneliness less.
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Your anger, your sorrow, your fear, are okay to feel through, no matter how big it feels now.
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I sit on the bare floor, leave my palms unturned, and watch relief pool into one hand, and uncertainty in the next. I will try not to lean more one way or another, but let them hold each other as company.
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Meet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Please come here, but not too close.
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For now, I’ll bring what I can to my own four walls. I recognize the purpose, the promise of this: a church is made by its space, by its practices.
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I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
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I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
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I know I could be an astronomer of this swooning.
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I’m writing about moving again, and when I write about moving, I really mean beginning. I’m beginning again.
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Change is not a four letter curse word I once believed it to be.
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