God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it. - Anne Lamott

"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?"

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.