This is what I know about telling the truth:
• It can make us uncomfortable.
• Few are willing to do it openly themselves, but many are grateful when someone else does it.
• It’s necessary and messy.
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When I was very young, I was briefly exposed to a certain mother of a disabled individual, and I thought, in not so many words, “What a fierce, angry, difficult woman. Bad.”
Decades later, I became the mother of a disabled individual, and I remembered that woman, and I thought, “What a fierce, overburdened, exhausted, dedicated, struggling, faithful, fearless, visionary woman. I owe her.”
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Life is a circle. 🔄
Given enough time, life comes for all of us, with exactly the right lessons and paradigm shifts we need.
Life is also a line. ➡️
We need every kind of advocate.
I often wish I were a different kind. I often wish I weren’t any kind. I am still learning how to be MY kind.
Life is a trajectory ↗️; a mystery, a wonder, and a growing experience. I’m just trying to stay open to it and honest about it.
