Rest and Rituals
Words of Grace and Encouragements
My lovies—
Happy Friday. I don’t know about you, but here in the DMV every week lasts a year. I am ready for Spring (which sprung for a brief moment then faded away), ready for warmth on my skin and long walks before the biting insects make a feast of our calves.
I have a few offerings for you, hoping they bring a little more grace, a bit more encouragement. To keep going, living, digging, and resting.
May this weekend be regenerative.
Love, always
a. xx
This note I found this morning during my writing session, which I took during the peek of my healing process:
A Simple Revolution
Step 1: You are worthy.
Step 2: You may now believe it.
Lunch in the sun with my girls who are growing so fast I simply can’t.
This piece by Jeannine Ouellette on forgiveness—I am particularly pondering questions #6 and #8:
Are some things simply unforgivable?
Can forgiveness exist without an apology?
Thick, French thrillers gifted by a friend from her hometown—because she knows I love them.
This quote by Doris Lessing:
Perhaps it is not too much to say that in these violent times the kindest, wisest wish we have for the young must be: “We hope that your period of immersion in group lunacy, group self-righteousness, will not coincide with some period of your country’s history when you can put your murderous and stupid ideas into practice. “If you are lucky, you will emerge much enlarged by your experience of what you are capable of in the way of bigotry and intolerance. You will understand absolutely how sane people, in periods of public insanity, can murder, destroy, lie, swear black is white.”
(via The Marginalian)