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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

I stroll picturesque stream-flanked ippon-uras and watch kids walk before me in zigzaggy lines and think about how adults are so point-to-point specific, but these children try their hardest to stretch out their walks home, ducking into little nooks in the entryways of houses and behind stone walls, poking one another, tugging on tree branches,

One woman’s life was changed when she realized that she could say, “I will not allow myself to be yelled at. I will go into the other room until you decide you can talk about this without attacking me. When you can do that, I will talk to you.”

The problem of toxic shame is ultimately a spiritual problem.

proactive people do not demand rights, they live them. Power is not something you demand or deserve, it is something you express.

… If I can accept that I am who I am, that I feel what I feel, that I have done what I have done—if I can accept it whether I like all of it or not—then I can accept myself.

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken.