Light and Shadow

Our wholeness is light and shadow. The more we try to appear acceptable and appropriate by disowning our more difficult selves and denying our more troubled stories, the more internally polarized and fragmented we become.

So, I want to talk more about the falls, the fails, the follies and foibles. All of those times I didn’t know, or I did know but didn’t care, or I didn’t say or do the good, right, best thing. All of those times that life had its way with me, and I didn’t respond graciously or recover gracefully.

I want to normalize f*cking up and being f*cked over as a fact of life.

I want to advocate for allowing ourselves to be irrevocably changed by the things that change everything.

I want to banish the secrecy and shame around not having our sh*t together.

I want to tell and hear stories about the false starts, and the ordinary middles, and the un-happy endings.

I want the light and shadow.
I want our wholeness.
I want our humanity.