Thank you, Eric...so, so much. Such beauty and raw honesty... to add to the growing list...
23. If I were fully convinced I were going to die, I would give up trying so hard. I would not care about showing up late, what others thought of me, and maybe even what I thought of myself. I would tell everyone I care about how much I cared about them. Then, I would go out into the woods with my husband and kids and cry and feel the ground with my bare feet and hug the trees and smell the grass and watch the hawks circle and pray with all my heart to find and feel that connection to something greater, bigger, and more transcendent that I suspect finds itself even in the ever-changing, birthing, and dying.
On Apr 7, 2022 Janessa Gans Wilder wrote:
Thank you, Eric...so, so much. Such beauty and raw honesty... to add to the growing list...
23. If I were fully convinced I were going to die, I would give up trying so hard. I would not care about showing up late, what others thought of me, and maybe even what I thought of myself. I would tell everyone I care about how much I cared about them. Then, I would go out into the woods with my husband and kids and cry and feel the ground with my bare feet and hug the trees and smell the grass and watch the hawks circle and pray with all my heart to find and feel that connection to something greater, bigger, and more transcendent that I suspect finds itself even in the ever-changing, birthing, and dying.