My heart palpitates as my finger hovers over the SEND button, my palm clammy with a sudden burst of perspiration. "This is it," flashes through my mind, and before I lose my nerve, I tap the screen. Expelling a heavy sigh from years of bent up disappointment, frustration, and whatever minuscule amount of hope remains, I lean back in my chair to relax my racing heart. I've only just sent the beginnings of my revisions for my manuscript to a friend for review. She read the first dreadful, ...
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Blog Hiatus
It's appalling how much time has passed since I last wrote... In my defence –– as I too often iterate at the beginning of these posts due to my guilt and the seeming accountability blogging creates –– it was the Jewish High Holy Days last month, so I was a tad bit busy. Tonight being the first free evening I had in too long, I felt the need, the longing, the itch to write. Something. Anything. Over the holidays, I tried my best to relax, breathe, have little to no commitments, and ...
A Life of Hope
Yesterday, I did a mini-musing on Instagram. Today, I want to follow-up with more thoughts. Live a life full of hope,” I said. People often equate positivity, optimism, etc. as the successful way to live, barring all negativity as the source of all unhappiness. I disagree. Strongly. Positivity, a positive lifestyle, however you want to describe it – is bupkis. Light cannot exist without darkness, nor the reverse. Darkness is not inherently evil. Negativity, thus, is merely a result of the ...
