I think each of us lives many lives and it is very rare that lives can intersect. Last night, was one of those rare and beautiful times when that happened. It was important to me that the people that I love be able to gather around the table and meet each other. The girls and their mom came …
Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday: Thank you for your vulnerability
Divorcee cafe days come and go each month. I am still a bit haunted by one woman who bravely came in, not knowing what to expect, and quietly sat, not really being able to speak to anyone. You see, she was in so much pain that talking would bring the tears. It probably took all her courage to …
Thankful Thursdays: Eat the damn donut!
Yesterday I had a friend call me at 7:30 in the morning crying because she thought she might have taken too many pills to get her through a difficult time. I sat with her most of the day to make sure she was ok. Yesterday I met with someone who I didn’t know. She had benefited from Divorcee Café …
Thankful Thursdays: The Unbroken
BY RASHANI RÉA There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass …
Thankful Thursdays: Blessings
BY CARRIE NEWCOMER May you wake with a sense of play, An exultation of the possible. May you rest without guilt, Satisfied at the end of a day well done. May all the rough edges be smoothed, If to smooth is to heal, And the edges be left rough, When the unpolished is more true And infinitely more …