Here Is The World

Good Morning my darlings.

I have all sorts of news to drop on you (mostly about the exciting upcoming Dolls tour – we just announced Orlando and Santa Fe on top of Denver) but I’ll get to that later today or tomorrow.

I wanted to just send you all a quote and a loving reminder. Also just posted it up to the socials.

A friend just sent me an advance copy of their fragile memoir. A soul-baring. And this is the quote that opens the book.

Here is the world.

Beautiful and terrible things will happen.

Don’t be afraid.

– Frederick Buchner

I feel this sentiment in my core today. I have seen, heard, been privy to so much darkness lately. I feel honored to stand near it, but also see – laid bare, more than I ever have – the unfathomable and sometimes unbearable wounds of trauma. The depths. The seemingly unhealable.

A reminder: you may not feel healable, but I have seen miracles.

I have held space lately with people who have raped and murdered and who have found some kind of path to reconciliation.

I have held space with people who have survived childhood sexual abuse and I have watched as they flourished and made art in the face of the unthinkable.

There is not always a happy ending. There is not always immediate company. There are terrifying roads.

Those souls you love deeply may not find the handle to the door out of their own dark. You must keep going.

Here is the world.

My love: you have this choice to make, each and every day.

You have this choice to make, now.

It does not matter what has happened to you, what you have fucked up, who has betrayed you, what may have hurt long ago or yesterday, what story is now behind you: here is the world.

Here is the world.

Beautiful and terrible things will continue to happen.

Take my hand.

Do not be afraid.

(I can’t wait to read this book. Reports later).

Reading comments for the next hour or so.

♥️

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