Tag: Acceptance

  • Before Becoming

    Before Becoming

    “I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…

  • Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    I am heartbroken…. I have called Minnesota “home” my entire life. And there is something remarkably strange about knowing your life is occurring in a place and time that will one day be depicted within history books. Some days I wake up to a silence that holds all the promise and possibility of normalcy, and…

  • Home and Away

    Home and Away

    It was just before 5am and the natural light outside was barely enough for my eyes to train in on the upper right corner of our entryway soffit. I opened the front door about three and a half inches and cast a wary look upon the slumbering waspitality suite that had been built so skillfully…