My Heart is Riding Shotgun

It can feel lonely when you are no longer part of a plural pronoun.

Being in nature is one of the easiest was to be present.

When I reflect, and feel doubt about something I have done in the past, I am training myself to ask, "did I do the best I could with what I knew?"

As much as we can, lets remember that great beauty can come from change.

Okagesama, which is often used conversationally in Japan to express thanks, is the acknowledgement of unseen forces in the world which make life possible.

There are only a few things that feel permanent to me right now - death being the great reminder of this.

How do you respond to this greeting, this question, when moment to moment, you ae not reall sure yourself?

Grief put me in a daze. Strangely enough, I was fully functioning.

I bought a journal the day after Tim died. It was the only thng I as oved to do.

Why Colorado? Everyone asked. We were ready for something new.

Sitting in grief. Cracked wide open. Vulnerable to feel everything. And that is exactly where I wanted to stay.

Crossing the state line was the most emotional moment of the road trip.