Everything

I woke up thinking, what am I going to write about today? What underlying idea is my mind chewing on? Then I started thinking about this realization that has settled in me over the last month or two. When people show up in my life I want their beautiful bits, absolutely, but what grounds those are the messy, imperfect fragments. When you show up in my life (my friend, my neighbor, my lover), bring me those shining, settled, polished and charming portions, but please bring your fallibility as well.

Call me the statue of liberty lol, 

cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I want your balance, I want your shadow and light, I want your laughter and your tears because you are both, all things. Show up not as who you have been told you should be, or you believe you should be but as you ARE when no one is looking. Be that person, that girl, that woman, that boy, that man, bring it! Don't apologize for your strength or your fragility. They are the foundations of your beautiful and broken heart. And if I am not there, if someone in your life is not saying these things aloud to you, rest assured they want someone to say them TO them. So, go out and BE the person who says these kinds of things but also show up today and tomorrow and the next day as the person those words have been spoken to. There is no one else like you in the universe, you have no competition. God/The Divine/Source/The Universe/Evolution created you because one of who you ARE is needed in the vastness of all that is. Just go out and BE.