Defying Definition
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do—especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right then and there. People don’t hold your past against you.” ~excerpted from Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Well, yes…and…
No amount of traveling will help you escape the stories you tell yourself about yourself.
Writing new chapters takes awareness, acceptance and action.
Do you hold your past against yourself?
Does it serve you?
Others?
Can you be who you are right here and now?
Henri and I walked in the rain this morning. As the thunder clapped and drops fell, there was a cloud break in the eastern sky. A Rainbow…
Put me in mind of Kacey Musgrave’s song.