#innerbattle

What’s a common misconception people have about happiness? Happiness has been asked to carry way too much weight. We handed it a job it was never built for. We made it the proof. That the choice was right. That the faith was real. That we were finally okay. And we let it stand guard at the door and turn away everything that didn’t look like gratitude. Grief waited outside. Anger waited…

If you could instantly master any skill, what would it be and why? I have spent most of my life learning how to hold what is fragile in other people — how to sit with what is tender, what is breaking, what is becoming. And somewhere in that, I forgot to learn how to hold it for myself. Glass blowing is one of those things I keep returning to in my mind, the way you return to a door you haven’t…