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wings will always try to fly

            I said goodbye to my foster son, River, who was with me for 10 months. In the time since, I've wandered my house aimlessly making myself look at the toys scattered throughout. Sat in his room re-folding his pajamas that he grew out of months ago. Read Where the Wild Things Are to myself, aloud. 

❓: Why do those things if they make me hurt so much? 
🅰️: Facing your fears can make you love them.

👉It's called re-storying, and it's how I manage my grief. 
Acknowledge that you had something beautiful, and that you will yet have something beautiful, and especially...

Life inevitably fills in the gaps between the having ✔️ & the losing 🚫, the wanting 🙏 & the getting 🙌. If I can't honor what a gift it is to live in-between all those things, I have no life at all.

I find pain beautiful, but that isn't the same as not feeling pain at all. I feel it so grievously that I'm angry and hurt. Still, it's a wonder that humans can feel that much at all, good or bad. It's a small miracle everyday that I get to live so fully that I can hurt that deeply. So I keep doing things that hurt, because the more I do them, the braver I become. The more beauty I see in it...

...Or maybe, the more beauty I create in it.

"Wings Will Always Try to Fly", self portrait August 2022
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Taken on: August 23, 2022

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