TOGETHER

Straighten Your Spine

Stand Tall

Make It Work

You'll risk screwing up, sure. 

This is where a mother pitches the paperwork for her PhD application.

Don't. 

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You’ll risk ruining it all – the skills you’ve acquired, the small notoriety you’ve been given, the general comforts of knowing what the heck you’re doing, of feeling comfortable, of feeling good, of feeling right.

Editing the script, the job, your life is a risk. It might never look the same.

But then again, it might never look the same.

Make It Work

I started a new career path today. 

Huntsman Cancer Institute

I stopped blogging. I went on hiatus from the blogger.com show. I started reading more, about whatever the heck I wanted to read about: parenting, minimalism, truth, beauty, hope.

Stay in your lane, some said.
Stick to labor and delivery, others said.

Be grateful for the job, they screamed. So what if it doesn’t give you enough income with constantly called off shifts? Straighten your spine. Stand tall. Make it work.

How To

redefine yourself

He grew tired

He started complaining about small things. He started feeling like he was stuck, like he’d be doing this forever, like this amazing/incredible gift of a life no longer suited him, like his life had shrunk down a bit, or he’d wanted it to shrink down a bit, and this operation, this whole big wide dress of a gig was too big. He was swimming in fabric.

I told myself my feelings were normal, slightly entitled even. It’s called a leaving the nest, Brenda, not a joy. You don’t have to love it.

And I don’t have to love it, sure. Boys grow up to become men.

But what if I could shift it, just a little? Tailor the dress? Take it in an inch, maybe two?

Could it fit again? Was this salvageable? He had to move out to find out. And so he rented an apartment with Preslee and his friend Nathan and begun his new trimmed down life. 

Survey Your Surroundings

Focus

It is nearly impossible to navigate your path when you’re looking down, staring at the phone, scrolling through journeys on vastly different terrain. Do you see it? Your path is here. Focus. Pay attention. Greet the people you meet along the way. 

Lift Your Eyes

Look at the wide sky, offer thanks for your smallness.