"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." - Maya Angelou I love this quote. The more I think about it, the more I have to say about it. I want to talk about it forever. Sadly, that is not reasonable. For now, I will make my initial point, and maybe one day soon I will let myself go down all the other rabbit trails I thought of in the time it took me to log on to write. No matter what, loving others is courageous. There is risk in love. We can lose the person we love, we can lose ourselves, or we can lose our minds. Sometimes, I think we lose all three. I am quite certain that I lost all three. There was a time, just this year, I hated this quote. I hated everything about it. I hated the idea of love, the idea that I could trust someone to care about me, to not hurt me, to listen to me, even to respect my rights as a human. More than than trusting someone else to love me, I hated the idea of loving myself. Of trusting myself to make de
"Ooh Chloe." I'm pretty sure I hear this every day. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm a mess. I'm generally confused about what I'm supposed to be doing. I am quite certain that I am supposed to be writing, so I want to personally invite you to share in my blessed mess - the ups and downs, the laughing and crying, laughing till crying, laughing while crying, and everything in between!