Sublime

We can begin by reuniting our estranged worlds, seen and unseen, by tending to their equivalence in our lives.

In the attempt to safeguard ourselves against vulnerability, we send our gifts underground.

Hidden in the dark we find our creative endowments—those

“imaginal”

in the form of moments shared in grief and celebration, language and images that surprise you, stories revealed at the rate of trust, and the responses you receive to the calls you’ve only made silently.

Ann Bedford Ulanov

I believe the ability to perceive synchronicity, and our living web of relations, is a capacity that can be reclaimed.

The beauty I’m referring to is metabolized grief. It includes brokenness and fallibility, and in so doing, conveys for us something deliciously real.

With nobody else to turn to, she realized she’d been clinging to her friend, despite their unhealthy dynamic, because a part of her believed that was the most she deserved.