Some connections are ineffable

A Random List o Tings

1. Some things are not ours to understand, but only to experience.

2. Sometimes we don’t have anything particular to say and just need to reach out to be sure of the other person and sure of the connection. This isn’t being needy, clingy, or anxiously attached; it’s being human  and having relationships be an important (vital) part of our wiring, evolution, and survival, individually and as a species.

3. I’ve said I don’t believe in Soul Mates, and in the pop-culture definition that is true. I don’t believe in one and only one “True Love”. I believe we have dozens, if not more, soul connections, with multiple people (and multiple kinds of relationships), animals, trees, bodies of water, the soil, the air. The more we open ourselves to this truth and feel all our interconnections and entanglements, the more peace, sense of belonging, and love we can feel, embody, and radiate.

4. All too often trauma will tell us we’re a burden or a bother or are too needy or just too much. Thing is, the people who AR…