there is extreme strength in our vulnerability. sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. sometimes you’re supposed to bare yourself and feel afraid in front of people. sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.
i believe that in this way real bravery is often invisible.invisible bravery means opening up, without resistance or embarrassment, and taking one another by the hand. it is the child of tenderness. it emerges in an invisible eruption when little voices let others brush against their hearts until they are simply raw with them. it is being willing to share oneself with others— in all of our precarious, divided bits, shrewd missing parts, incomplete shadows and misconfigured devices.
there is extreme strength in our vulnerability. sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. sometimes you’re supposed to bare yourself and feel afraid in front of people. sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.
i believe that in this way real bravery is often invisible.invisible bravery means opening up, without resistance or embarrassment, and taking one another by the hand. it is the child of tenderness. it emerges in an invisible eruption when little voices let others brush against their hearts until they are simply raw with them. it is being willing to share oneself with others— in all of our precarious, divided bits, shrewd missing parts, incomplete shadows and misconfigured devices.
this is how we begin to re-shape the earth.
a tender reminder for my new year. thank you <3
no thank you <3 i needed this