M&D – I want to take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate your love and support this holiday. I know you’ve told me a thousand times that I shouldn’t feel guilty or apologize, so this is not about that. It’s about sharing the love you freely gave me, give me over and over. Without pause or rebuke, ever.
You ask me to be smart, but that’s become the voice in my head. Nothing wrong with that voice, it’s intuition. Other people smarter that me have said that the voice in your head comes from our parents; to deny that is to dismantle the wisdom you’ve been given. Everything holds wisdom if you look hard enough, right? Good, bad and every moment in between can be our teachers if we let them.
But yes — I am being smart, can’t help it. I’ve always been smart. Sometimes too smart for the rest of the world to catch up to me. This is where the patience I’m working on comes in. Patience and understanding are two other gifts you’ve given me. Thank you. Those gifts bring so much kindness attached that you can’t help but put that kindness back out into the world.
I love you both. I wouldn’t be me without each of you, and you both know that’s true as hell.
The girl who mistook her chair as a pulpit for the soles of her shoes 