Dream Life

                                   it takes enormous strength to carry our burdens. but we cannot underestimate the strength it  takes to admit when they have become too heavy. surrender is not weakness. it's knowing when enough is enough. it's feeling and honoring what you have and have not been called to bear. show yourself the same grace that in a fraction of a heartbeat, you would extend to someone else. the last thing we need is a world full of people who are barely hanging on. find some shelter and stay for as long as  your soul requires it. this journey was not meant to be taken without setting your bags down and stopping to rest for awhile.

                                        For Girls Made of Storms and Sadness You are monsoon wrapped in the skin of girl the say you aunt        tells you how you must act in front of boys.        Girls like you must never look them in the eye. Don't forget what happens when boys look in the direction of girls        that carry the sky in their eyes and       the world weighing down on their shoulders. Girls who have seen great sadness very young look vulnerable,   like prey and some men are wolves. They will eat you alive. You are too hungry inside your own sadness, and when you love,      you love like torrential rain-heavy and intense.         you are too soft hearted and hard headed, and she is afraid how many around you can see that as weakness. Some people will want to ...