The truth is that no one can keep you captive. No one can keep you unhappy. No one can keep you abused. Our lives rise to the level we accept.
sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask
Loving my son has helped me to love myself more.
The successful parents I saw were able to redefine who they were and renegotiate their needs and roles as humans, parents, and partners.
I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself — believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out.
My grandmother had pale hands that looked like sturdy veins. She wrote poetry, too, and sang. Though she knew few lovers, I hope here breasts were admired as mine are two silver deities two shining steeples giving testament to the sky. — And So to Receive You
True safety was not in having armor. It was in vulnerability.
Expect it. Dream about it. Give birth to it in your being. Know! Something good is coming down the line. Finding its way to you like all things find their way to god’s children. Listen!
While the women in Alaska certainly knew they were physically weaker than most men, it never meant they weren’t cleaver enough to find a way to get the job done
They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.