Afraid is a country with no exit visas.
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.