Just like Emerald, we are fantastic, just the way we are.
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Full Circle
Emerald's Big Discovery I remember when I was a teenager, I wanted to be good enough to make the basketball team. Frankly, I sucked at basketball but my older sisters were both on varsity teams and I was trying to follow their lead. They were pretty and popular, and I tried to be just like … Continue reading Full Circle
Climate Change
I thought about how my coat adventure would have been, say, 10 years ago, and how it was today, and how different those two scenarios are. I thought about how gratitude and self-love and awareness has changed my life. And I decided to write about it.
Emerald’s Big Discovery
Emerald's Big Discovery About 2 years ago, I was lying in bed, communing with the universe, when a story showed up in my mind. It wasn't an idea for a story, or a partial, vague story, but a complete story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A children's story. And sharp cookie that … Continue reading Emerald’s Big Discovery
Division
Let me start by saying that I am not an American but a Canadian with a front row seat to all that has taken place in the last 24 hours.I watched the election, becoming more horrified as the hours went by. I swore at the TV. Went to bed to get away from it, then … Continue reading Division
Cocoon
I've been in a cocoon for a while now, and it's not the first time. In the past, I have fought it. Fought against the waiting and changing. Feared the process. Feared the outcome. What's going on? Why am I so stuck? Now, I recognize the signs. I know that something new is just working it's … Continue reading Cocoon
What’s that you say?
So lately I’ve noticed something about myself. I realized that, sometimes, I have a hard time just enjoying life for its own sake. Like, just being happy to be alive, with no conditions. I noticed this because I have started to pay closer attention to how my body feels. I’ve been paying attention to my … Continue reading What’s that you say?
Note to a young self…
You are vital. You are needed. You are necessary.
Witness
I feel your presence. I feel the expanse of you. The possibility. The vastness. And though I know you are there, I am a blind and deaf witness. I am trapped in the caul of my humanity. Knowing you are speaking to me. Asking me to open my eyes. To break through into existence.
Limitless
You know that moment when the Grinch gets it?
BreatheShellyGirl 