Romance with Open Eyes
There's this odd notion in society that true love means you lose yourself in the other or that you merge so completely, it is impossible to know where you begin and the other ends. The great bards and poets of every culture write of this love in all its burning passion and we see it continue on in movies, celebrity love affairs, and nearly every album put out by musicians regardless of genre. Somehow real romance is supposed to be so painful and tortured that if it's not, we
The Control We Do Have
It took me about three decades to truly understand what the serenity prayer means. You know the one, "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference". Having been adopted into 12 step and recovery programs, I saw that it made sense for those who were struggling with addiction but didn't quite internalize the core meaning. I couldn't see how I was addicted in my own ways. I didn't need
