The Greatest Challenge in Love

The greatest challenge in love is not finding someone to love.

Nor is it knowing how to love better or deal with the brokenness of another.

It’s got nothing to do with someone else.

Extraordinary love doesn’t come out of a bottle

My barber has a funny sticker on the mirror. It reads, “Great hair does not come out of a bottle.”

Neither does love grow out of attending relationship seminars, reading books and listening to podcasts, or (shockingly)…

Building a Relationship with Jealousy

I’ve had a difficult time processing jealousy in relationships.

At first, I thought it was cultural.

Then, I was convinced it was something I inherited from my family.

The Koala and the Squirrel – On Letting Go

A squirrel and a koala lived on a tree. They were best friends. The koala preferred the higher branches, with his head mostly in the clouds. The squirrel built her house closer to the ground, preferring proximity to the earth for practical reasons.

Let Go… Let Life Flow

No matter how hard I try, there are things I cannot just let go.

Or simply move on although someone tells me its in my best interest.

It’s easy to say let go when you’ve never been so attached that separation leaves you breathless.

The Mirror

The mirror is the voice of my father

Telling me who I am

Who I could be

It’s the voice of my mother showing me

The way of love and radical acceptance.

Drawing You Out

I am drawing you out

To a place, a state of living

That is long neglected

That holds the key

To the bliss you seek.

Woman

The way she walks

Is Spring in deep Winter

Fresh, breezy, brisk

This vision walks right up to me.

Elegant in her gait

Love and Surrender

Not every love story is beautiful.

In fact, most of them are ugly and bloody.

In matters of love, there are rarely intact survivors. We are all bruised, broken, and maimed… sometimes for life.

A Postcard from Relationship After-Life

“What do you miss the most about us?”

The sun glinting off her hair, my body aware of the proximity of her’s.

A month after we stopped seeing each other, the tension between us is still strong but relaxed…