145) Coming Full Circle:  Part 5 — The Bleeding Hearts and The Artists Make Their Stand

145) Coming Full Circle:  Part 5 — The Bleeding Hearts and The Artists Make Their Stand

There’s no sense pretending we are not in this situation, just like there’s no sense in a budding sapling pretending it didn’t germinate in poor soil, if that’s the reality.  

No, that sapling has to grow those roots deeper, and proliferate its root system so thoroughly that it gets the life energy it needs to survive and thrive.  Right there, in the poor soil it was planted it.  Or, it dies.

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141) Coming Full Circle:  Part 1 — Me, this blog, Pink, and a Scathing Diatribe against The System, maaaan 

141) Coming Full Circle:  Part 1 — Me, this blog, Pink, and a Scathing Diatribe against The System, maaaan 

I feel really, really grateful for you all. All the people who have been reading this and sharing thoughts, a whole community of people who share ideas on Facebook especially and in comments here — it’s just awesome to have experienced all this. Blogging is (for me anyway, lol….) a pretty personal thing, like writing into your diary….but then for some ungodly reason sharing it with the world.

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67) Purpose:  A Four-part series -- Part 1 -- "Tearing Down the Wall"

67) Purpose: A Four-part series -- Part 1 -- "Tearing Down the Wall"

The antidote to suffering and alienation, is love.  It’s trusting.  Reaching out for connection.  It’s admitting weakness, accepting yourself, and accepting the Other.  It’s embracing the unknown, together.  It’s courage, in the Brene Brown sense of speaking your truth, with your whole heart.

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