A Personal History by Junot Díaz: I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-silence-the-legacy-of-childhood-trauma
When TRUTH Arrives…
This path of TRUTH has held many surprises and lessons. One is that not everyone is going to like your TRUTH. In fact, your TRUTH may seem wildly unseemly, distasteful, and farfetched to those who believed they knew you…but in fact knew only who they wanted to know, who they were allowed to know, who I was supposed to be…which was most palatable by design. But once the real you shows up, she arrives pre-loaded with zero fucks to give. There is no going back. And for that, I am thankful. Because TRUTH is the wake up to living this life in full. I’m not the first one to discover that. And I hope for everyone else, I won’t be the last.
TRUTH via Prince
The Separated Ones
“I’ve noticed the separated amongst us have evolved. Surprisingly they reach beyond simply wanting to belong, Turning rejection into elevated awareness…in turn, connecting them to everything else…The orphan does not wait to be seen. He doesn’t give up…Once he stopped chasing the flock, that was incapable of seeing him, an instinct emerged, like a whisper in his ear—-nourish yourself, the world will be drawn to you.”
—JOHN CHESTER
Love
When you are taught that love will arrive on a breeze, and the rest of life can be worked out as it arrives…it can be confusing to learn that so many in this life believe in complicating it, muddying what is otherwise so beautiful and wondrous and pure. I still choose love. I choose to float upon the clouds, and land upon the shore, of love, and only love, forevermore. The rest of life will be sorted out as needed. Because, Love. That is the only thing.
#LoveLikeAlicia
The TRUTH Key Project
…a movement to support suicide prevention
for young women and girls.
#LoveLikeAlicia
While writing this book,
a beautiful and brilliant friend lost her battle with Silence-ism
when she took her own life.
My hope is that by helping others break the chains of silence
that our secrets keep us bound within,
we might help a few souls hang on
for the day when they can feel free to make the choice to live,
by becoming free
of the weight of the secrets
and the silence.
#LoveLikeAlicia
“The Language of Lunacy”
Copyright © Charise M Studesville, 2018. All Rights Reserved
“To be the victim of sexual assault is to fall down a rabbit hole into a reality shaped by collective delusion: specifically, the delusion that powerful or popular or ordinary-seeming men who do good work in the world cannot also be abusers or predators. To suggest otherwise is to appear insane. You question yourself. Even before anyone calls you a liar — which they will — you’re wondering if you’ve overreacted. Surely he couldn’t be like that. Not him. Anyway, it would be insanity to go against someone with so much clout. The girls who do that are sick in the head. At least, that was what we used to think.”
—Laurie Penny (♥️ you!)
(Read the full article here.)
Love = Art = Life
