Jewels from the Dark

Approved. I have been waiting to see those words on my screen this entire year. And it is finally approved. ‘It’ being the amputation. I am relieved and hopeful and scared and terrified and happy all at the same time. Alllllll the feels. So what do we do when we feel all the feels?? I…

Do you ever feel stuck? Like you wish you could wiggle a little and move your life forward? Keeping with the mining theme, it’s like spelunking and getting into a ‘squeeze.’ I know nothing of actual spelunking, just to be clear…But I have read about getting in between two rocks or in between the entrance…

I grew up in a military family and one of my early life lessons was to hurry up and wait. The concept meant you had to make sure you were at least 15 mins early to everything (or an hour early, which is still my comfort zone…) and then you have to actually wait for…

I’m a little bit obsessed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, especially the people of Rohan. I love their fighting spirit, how they never give up even when the odds are against them. I also love one of their battle cries – ‘Forth…and fear no darkness!’ Darkness has been a constant…

The more life I experience, the more I am convinced that we must learn to embrace the darkness that visits us all. Life is full of bright moments and depths of darkness. While we may crave the sunlight, we must learn to mine the jewels from the dark. I have spent the majority of my…