"Until the last couple of years, my life had allowed me to look the other way and pretend that my homes... have no dark corners... holding them close has allowed my roots to only grow deeper." -- This passage took my breath momentarily, then released it back to me. In the last few years I've buried my mother, my father, and my 30 year marriage, while coming to terms with the painful fallout from revealing that my authentic-self defies the hetero-normative expectations of each. I am fifty-six and feeling my mortality in my bones. Your words allow me to think I might be 'young still'. Instead of resisting the shadows of disappointing my parents and my ex, I hope to let the shadows be, and integrate. Thank you.
I’ve turned away from reading anything about Gaza lately because it’s too much to bear and was eclipsing the beauty I could feel. But these words were somehow affirming. We can’t look away can we? Love is the ultimate resistance
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Congratulations on all of it Jo ❤️🙏 welcome back.
Deeply appreciative of everything that you're speaking to, here. I had no idea about the olive trees, and I have no words.
Thank you for this much-needed beauty;
"Until the last couple of years, my life had allowed me to look the other way and pretend that my homes... have no dark corners... holding them close has allowed my roots to only grow deeper." -- This passage took my breath momentarily, then released it back to me. In the last few years I've buried my mother, my father, and my 30 year marriage, while coming to terms with the painful fallout from revealing that my authentic-self defies the hetero-normative expectations of each. I am fifty-six and feeling my mortality in my bones. Your words allow me to think I might be 'young still'. Instead of resisting the shadows of disappointing my parents and my ex, I hope to let the shadows be, and integrate. Thank you.
I’ve turned away from reading anything about Gaza lately because it’s too much to bear and was eclipsing the beauty I could feel. But these words were somehow affirming. We can’t look away can we? Love is the ultimate resistance