Comments on: on safe harbours, swimming demons, and facing your own stuff

By: Moving me right now | {peace.love.free}

Moving me right now | {peace.love.free} — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:30:38 +0000

[...] *on safe harbours, swimming demons, and facing your own stuff* [...]

By: Peggie

Peggie — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:31:47 +0000

Kelly – this is beautiful and brought up so many pieces of me (seems a theme for us in the conversation here). Not just the war that we all live through inside but the way humans are when they are scared (because a human that is not scared/petrified of him/herself does not torture other beings) and I am grateful to see the journey and keep moving forward – with you – and all of us – who are working to live now. not in the past or even what we hope to be the future.

Thanks Kelly for always giving a beautiful voice to the dance of life.

By: Annie Andre

Annie Andre — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:17:49 +0000

Sometimes our past rules our present and our futuere.
This beautiful piece makes me think about my my childhood and how i wished my father raised me differently. Now, i’m finding that i sometimes try to live vicariously through my children for better or worse.

By: Marthe

Marthe — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:07:50 +0000

This post touched me. It reminds me of how I used to scan the school yard to find a safe spot to hide where people wouldn’t notice that I had no one to hang out with.

It made me realize that I still hide sometimes. Still ashamed of my loneliness.

It’s my stuff. I’m working on it.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:08:03 +0000

Simply moving. It`s all our own stuff, yes, and it belongs to all of us.

By: Irving Podolsky

Irving Podolsky — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:13:08 +0000

Yes Kelly, your words surge from your heart. But what moved me even more than this post, was your link to “He drove me crazy,” a post you scribed back in January. That story was about YOU and only YOU. And it rocked me tonight.

So I may be six months late but I’d like to respond to your quote: “Myth breaking: fairy tales and happily ever after and us, always.”

Gee, Kelly, I never gave up on that fairy tale, and now I live in one. It’s not a myth.

Sure, I know it doesn’t happen often. I know it’s magic. But true love does exist, and when you find it, you know it. And it’s not about lust or infatuation. It’s about FREEDOM, the freedom to express yourself with all your flaws, fears and doubts to the person you love. Because deep down inside, even deeper than that, you know your vows fired together long before this current reunion. You’ve been best friends from beginning of time and will be to the end of time. Words are not needed, nor are they appropriate. It’s all understood, even within violent confrontations. It’s a drama meant to burn insight into your souls and you both understand this. So after your drama is played out and the tension drops with the curtain, you kiss, hug and celebrate your vivid performance.

I know, it sounds so romantic, like a fairy tale. Well, Kelly, it is. And don’t you ever, ever, ever believe it won’t happen to YOU!

Irv

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 01:00:39 +0000

…I want to find the words to communicate how much this post moved me, how time stood still while I read it, and how it cracked my heart open…

But all I can really think to say is this: thank you for sharing this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

~Meg

By: Linda J

Linda J — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:31:32 +0000

Such a wonderful writer. Your words stay with me throughout the day.

By: nancy (aka moneycoach)

nancy (aka moneycoach) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:30:35 +0000

Just popped by after someone on twitter referred me. This post took my breath away. It simultaneously broke my heart to be reminded what some people have to live with, and challenged me – me, with such small demons in comparison – to courageously stare my own stuff down. Thanks for writing this. It blew me away.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:57:44 +0000

I’ve been waiting for you to get back to what really matters, Kelly. Take your time. Do it right.