the resentments are gathering like rust corroding all that is good and fine and I want to find forgiveness this almighty forgiveness that always seems so elusive is it deep down inside me? something I…
Posts tagged reflection
On certainty
Certainty is the idea on my mind lately. I’ve been sitting with questions like: Can we ever be certain? Are some people simply more self-assured than others? Do we really “know when we know”? What do these…
Thought bubbles: the need to control
When I love something, I suffocate it. It’s not that I want to exactly, but just that I inevitably do. Like my cat who I want to squeeze until he pops into a million pieces. Like a…
That Hopeless Feeling
that hopeless feeling like when football is playing on tv in the middle of the day and sunshine filters through the windows at just the right angle making me regret being inside making me rethink my…
Failures of Kindness
George Saunders put it best when he said: “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” It’s something that springs to mind often for me — all the times I let my reticence or my…
This idea of purpose
It’s easy to let the days blend together. Each one washing in and out, each one erasing the last. Life becoming a diffuse sky of endless gray until you turn around and realize how far…