Thank you for stopping by.
Why am I doing this? This is actually my second attempt at putting my thoughts down in this format. My first, I started shortly after my son was born in November 2021. The idea then was to have a therapeutic outlet to share the joys and struggles of parenting, but mainly so that my son perhaps someday would read it and get to know his dad a bit better. I kept up with it for a while, but took it all down six months after I started.
Fast forward and some of that why remains the same. I now have a beautiful almost two year old daughter…and the joys and struggles of parenting remain. I have many stories!
As is the case with many 40-somethings, I am looking deep within. What I am finding is both enlightening and frightening. The search, layer-by-layer is requiring a level of discipline and willingness to challenge everything I think I am in order to realize myself fully. If that is even possible, for it may be just beyond my grasp forevermore.
That is the beauty of any spiritual journey and the more I immerse myself in it, the more I find it to be common among those truly trying to find themselves. Through it all, I am finding growth and comfort…by sharing maybe you will too.
I’ll close with a poem by Rumi:
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture
Still treat each guest honorably,
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.