Tag: heart
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death by expectation
Fun fact: expectations are serial killers. They are killers of joy, killers of peace, of relationships, of vision, of hope. Our expectations kill goodness in our lives. They cause us to miss the point. They blind us to the truth. We get so wrapped up in the mismatch between how we thought it would be…
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table flippin’
My dog, Timber, is a 150-pound Anatolian Shepherd Dog who has turned out to be quite destructive. He doesn’t mean to be, but between his gigantic body and his whip of a tail, he alone creates most of the messes in my house. So very many times I have panic-rushed to catch a glass or…
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the plans
Sometimes I think I could have planned it better. My life. I could have prevented certain things from happening to me as a child and hurting me for years to come. I could have removed certain people from my life or added in more people to fill the gaps. I could have opened different doors,…