Experience

I knew that injuries sustained when younger come back to visit in time, but I doubt I would have done anything differently. Even my well-practiced skills of falling (either from a horse or in martial arts) wouldn't have saved me from my current reminders. It was all worth it. What do your scars say about you?

What would it be like

Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone simply took responsibility for their own actions? If they realized that not everything is about them, and other people are affected by what they do? What if everyone acted with compassion and kindness instead of mere self interest? I'm not sure why that seems to be so difficult.

It's not Dan Brown

I write like
Leo Tolstoy

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advice

I think the best advice I've ever received was when I was 8. I had an awful day at my first horse show and was in tears, inconsolable. My mother tried to calm me down, but I was hearing none of it. Finally she said, "It's done. You can't change anything that happened before. Move on and make the next one better." So I stopped crying and did just that. There's no where to go but forward.

shhh.

It's a rarity, but sometimes it's necessary to rest, recharge, and spend a day loafing. Good company makes it easier.

Lists

Cogs, rivets, and discs for bracelets and bobby pins. A brass lotus flower shining in a field of Mehndi. Clockwork insects. A mermaid in saturated colors. Shiny.

Alternatives

We have skills; we just need to determine where best to aim them. My head is filled with earthtones and metallics, pirates and clocks, taxidermy and new blood, bright blue skies with coming storm clouds. Full speed ahead!