August 2010
15 posts
don't let me down
if you really want to do this. we’re not doing it half-assed. if you allow me to care for you, i’m going to with my whole heart.
i hold
i hold hope, and love. i hold thoughts inside that i can’t express in words. i hold memories and shadows. i hold fear for what i cannot control. but sometimes i hold so much genuine joy that i feel i will burst. and that’s the best thing to hold.
“we want these answers, these solutions. we try so hard. we wait. i am feeling these days like those tangled parts are the most interesting parts. the tangled unfinished parts are what i want to know about in others. the spaces in between. i am not a finished product. maybe it comes full circle. i look at what i feared in me, what i can push so far away from. today i am willing to...
“life is a growing expedition through the tangled and unfilled-in parts. because of the fear we don’t trust our own life? our story? our colors? to be afraid and leap regardless, there is such power in that. to live into the questions of our lives when nothing feels clear. we have this chance to do absolutely anything, to reach out to another, vulnerable and true. to dance on...
i want
i want to go places. i want to do things. not just talk about doing things. i want to dream, but make those dreams real. i don’t want to be average.
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgur disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look...
“it seems we apologize so often for ourselves. we catch ourselves carefully...”
– sabrina ward harrison 