September 10, 2023 – A

I take heart in not knowing anyone
who has done it,
or is doing it,
right.

The old ditty nails it:

There is so much good in the worst of us, 
and so much bad in the best of us, 
that it ill behooves any of us 
to find fault with the rest of us
(James Truslow Adams).

Everything shifts when we just lighten up.

Particularly when it comes to
our relationship with ourselves.

No one can hope to have 
healthy relationships with others
who doesn't have a healthy relationship
with themselves.

Which makes the right kind of emptiness--
emptying ourselves of the right kinds of things--
at the top of the list
of things to get right.

And being desperate to get things right
is the first thing to be empty of.

I feel better already.
And hope you do, too.

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