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Good morning, loves. A friend and I were talking yesterday about shame, and I w…
Good morning, loves.
A friend and I were talking yesterday about shame, and I was asking her where she puts hers — how she processes it, where she stores it, where it emerges in her life. I still spend a lot of time (too much time) struggling with my own shame, often quite painfully. I am quite good at revisiting what I think are my worst moments — moments when I believe that I failed myself and others terribly — and then doing a fair bit of damage to myself over that obsessive thinking. Thus, I'm always curious to learn how other people manage this black hole of a human emotion.
In the middle of my friend's answer, she said something that is still resonating in me, many hours later. She said, "Liz, the world doesn't need your shame. We don't want your shame. We have no use for it. It produces nothing. Your shame helps nobody. It's not creative, or generative, or healing in any way. Shame is not what you were put on earth to share with us."
A thought I had never quite considered before.
Shame is not what any of us were put on earth to share with each other.
I'm pretty sure she's right. I'm pretty sure I know already what we were put on earth to share — not only with each other, but with ourselves.
The big love, you guys, and the big love only.
Be kind to yourself today,
LG
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Rest in peace, Ricky. Today I was honored to be with my friend Rayya when we h…
Rest in peace, Ricky.
Today I was honored to be with my friend Rayya when we helped her friend Ricky take his last walk home.
There are dogs, and then there are wonderful dogs, and then there are epic dogs, and then there was Ricky. He was one of the greats, you guys. A dear love, a goofy pickle, a cow-faced monkey butt. A heroic friend.
The best teacher I ever met once told me that the last gift your dog will ever offer you is to teach you, by brave example, how to die gracefully. Because we humans die so badly, but dogs do it so well. When it's time for a dog to go, he simply goes. No drama. No fuss. No regrets. Just grace. Then there is nothing left for us to do except hold him as he passes and commence to loving him forever in memory.
Sweet boy, goodbye. We will miss you. You did good.
And sweet Rayya, sleep tight. We love you,
LG